Keyed Out #120 — Papaver somniferum

Question 1

Two green {sepals} cap the nodding bud and fall away the moment it opens, so the flower stands with no green cup beneath it and its {petals} unfold creased like crumpled tissue, rather than five green sepals staying put around the open bloom and its fruit.

Accepted Answer

poppy family

Question 2

Any snapped stem or leafstalk beads at once with thick milky juice, yellow or orange in some of its relatives, rather than weeping thin clear watery {sap}.

Accepted Answer

Papaveraceae

Question 3

Its fruit is closed at the top by a flat disc of velvety {stigma} rays seated directly on the ovary with no {style} beneath them, and it releases seed through a ring of small pores opening just under that disc, not by splitting lengthwise into long {valves}.

Accepted Answer

Papaver

Question 4

Each large bloom is carried singly at the top of its own long leafless stalk, bent over while still in bud and lifting as it opens, not several small flowers bunched in one cluster at the shoot tip nor hundreds of tiny petal-less ones in an airy plume.

Accepted Answer

Papaver

Question 5

Stem and leaves are smooth and hairless beneath a blue-grey waxy bloom that rubs off on a thumb, not roughened all over with stiff spreading bristles.

Accepted Answer

Papaver somniferum

Question 6

Its leaves ride right up the flowering stem, the uppermost stalkless and gripping the stem with two rounded lobes, rather than sitting entirely in a ground-level {rosette} below bare leafless flower {scapes}.

Accepted Answer

Papaver somniferum