Red Poppy. Stock Photo

Red poppy. Poppy (lat. Papaveraceae) is a family of dicotyledonous plants of order Luticasone. Annual and perennial herbs, often containing milky juice; leaves alternate, occasionally opposite. Woody plants occur only in childbirth and bocconia dendromecon. Flowers or solitary, or forming racemose inflorescences. They are bisexual, regular or irregular; calyx mostly 2 leaves; Corolla of 4 petals, but there are evasion; the stamens, which are many, are 2 or 4 mug (without deviation), rarely only 4 or 2; in the latter case they are branched from the base. Ginetsey contains from 2 to 16 pistils connate to the top and forming one whole ovary, for the most part anagnostou. Fruit dry, box, odnochastny or is divided into incomplete nests, rarely orehoviy. Seeds with an oily protein and a small embryo that is provided with only one cone-bearing cotyledons instead of two. Pollination occurs mainly through insects.