Delight

This wildflowers known as California poppy are wild in nature and they bloom all over the state with this delightful golden yellow or orange hues.... more

by Rima Biswas

Title

Delight

Artist

Rima Biswas

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Photograph - Digital Photography

Description

This wildflowers known as California poppy are wild in nature and they bloom all over the state with this delightful golden yellow or orange hues. They are so delightful to look at. Bright flowers in a sunlit meadow, perfect scene of spring. Brighten your room with this light, and keep spring with you all over the year.

From Wikipedia: Eschscholzia californica (California poppy, golden poppy, California sunlight, cup of gold) is a species of flowering plant in the family Papaveraceae, native to the United States and Mexico, and the official state flower of California.
As the official state flower of California Eschscholzia californica is pictured on welcome signs along highways entering California.[13] It was selected as the state flower by the California State Floral Society in December 1890, winning out over the Mariposa lily (genus Calochortus) and the Matilija poppy (Romneya coulteri) by a landslide, but the state legislature did not make the selection official until 1903. Its golden blooms were deemed a fitting symbol for the Golden State. April 6 is designated California Poppy Day.
It is a perennial or annual growing to 5�60 in (13�152 cm) tall, with alternately branching glaucous blue-green foliage. The leaves are ternately divided into round, lobed segments. The flowers are solitary on long stems, silky-textured, with four petals, each petal 2 to 6 cm (0.79 to 2.36 in) long and broad; flower color ranges from yellow to orange, with flowering from February to September. The petals close at night or in cold, windy weather and open again the following morning, although they may remain closed in cloudy weather.[1] The fruit is a slender, dehiscent capsule 3 to 9 cm (1.2 to 3.5 in) long, which splits in two to release the numerous small black or dark brown seeds. It survives mild winters in its native range, dying completely in colder climates.

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May 27th, 2013