Yellow poppy - is it Icelandic poppy?
Gingerfingers
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Another ID request guys if you'd be so kind. Just noticed this yellow poppy in the garden. Three buds and the first has just opened and it's yellow. Never seen a yellow one before so googled and found yellow Icelandic. Is this right? Plus if I have only one plant and flowers open separately will I still get seeds can it self seed one flower at a time?
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We need to see a photo, especially the leaves
Have you a photo?
Welsh poppy, Meconopsis cambrica is another possibility
In the sticks near Peterborough
Welsh poppies I have seen have been paler. Didn't know there was an Icelandic one.
I don't think I can tell the difference from a photo Ginger. I would bet on the Welsh poppy as the one most likely to turn up without invitation
In the sticks near Peterborough
I'd bet on the Welsh too just 'cos it's the sort of plant that just appears - but as Nut says, I can't be certain from a photo.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Just looked at my Welsh poppy which is in flower at the moment and Gingerfingers poppy seems to have more petals but the leaves look just like the WP - maybe it's a 'sport'.
I agree Forester - all of my welsh poppies (and there are hundreds!) are single and that one looks semi-double so likely a cross etc. Worth keeping and seeing what the seeds produce. 80% of mine are yellow with the rest orange.
BobTG - so I have found another but only have one flower at a time. how will this be fertilised to produce a viable seed? Am I being thick here?
Not everything needs cross pollination ginger. I don't think poppies do
In the sticks near Peterborough