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I love ferns. I was so happy when the first ones sprouted along the side of the garden pond. I don’t mind that now there’s enough of them, and they get so big, that we can no longer walk along the path next to the pond, because the ferns have grown over it all.
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Prickly Blue-Poppy - Meconopsis horridula
Commonly known as Prickly Blue-Poppy, and Tibetan Poppy, Meconopsis horridula (Ranunculales - Papaveraceae) is an unusual bristly poppy with gorgeous, floppy, blue, tissue-paper flowers. The epithet “horrid” obviously applies to the spiny looking stems and certainly not to the striking cobalt-blue, ivory-eyed flowers.
This is an alpine species which occurs in the Himalayan region. It has been used as a traditional Tibetan medicine to “clear away heat, relieve pain, and mobilize static blood”. Currently chemical investigations on this species has led to the isolation and structural identification of 40 compounds, including several flavonoids, alkaloids and terpenoids.
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Photo credit: ©Nobuhiro Suhara | Locality: Osaka, Japan (2015)
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