Poppies at times seem like more trouble than they are worth. Their papery petals fall off with almost the slightest wind, and even without such a nudge they don’t last long. I was about to despair of getting a scan of the flower with the petals separating at the slightest touch, but then I noticed that the soon-to-be-seed-pod centers were intriguing in their own right. Make do with what you have, I guess!
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