Poppy Wallpaper Stock Photo

Poppy is an annual plant from the poppy family Papaveraceae. This universally known flower. In 2017, it became the German Plant of the Year.On November 11, when Veterans Day is celebrated, the poppy flower is used as a symbol to honor the soldiers who died in World War I. Behind this symbol originally used in the Commonwealth is Canadian surgeon John McCrae, soldier and author of the poem `In the Fields of Flanders`. It refers to the wild flowers growing between the trenches during trench warfare, the same origin is the blue cornflower bleuet de France that veterans remember in France.