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Weed Science & Agronomy
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Bayer Code : paphy

Scientific name: Papaver hybridum L.


Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Papaver hispidum Lam.

Classification: Papaveraceae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: rough poppy

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Bastard-Mohn ; ES : amapola mestiza ; FR : pavot hybride ; IT : papavero spinoso ; PT : papoila-peluda ; EN : rough poppy ;

Biological type: Annual


Seed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling snapshot Seedling:

- Cotyledons very narrow and short (few mm long).

- First leaves linear or rounded, then pinnate.


Adult plant snapshotAdult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 15-60 cm.

- Stem erect, branched, stiffly hairy.

- Leaves: lower in rosette, grass-green. Leaves once or twice pinnately cut, with lanceolate -linear segments, cauline leaves sessile. Whitish latex.

- Flower red to purple, relatively small, solitary, terminal or axillary, on long hairy peduncles. Petals bright wine-red, black-blotched at base. Sepals very bristly hairy.

- Fruit : capsule ovate to rounded, covered with stiff bristles. 5-8 rayed disk at the tip of the fruit. Seeds grey-brown, reniform, deeply reticulate.

- Whole plant poisonous - especially the fruit.

- Risk of confusion with Papaver rhoeas L., Papaver dubium L. (before flowering).

- Biological type: annual.

Mistake with: Papaver rhoeas , Papaver dubium


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