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  • COMMON NAME: tulip poppy
  • ARABIC: خشخاش أسود
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Papaver glaucum Boiss. & Hausskn.
  • FAMILY: PAPAVERACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Wadi Slope (Rocky) Slope (Stony)
  • TYPES: Annual
  • REMARKS: Very rare in the UAE.
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021.
Annual herb up to 50 cm in hight, glaucous, glabrous or sometimes with few bristles along peduncles. Stems erect or curving upward from the base. Lower leaves obovate to oblong tapering to a petiole, pinnately lobed or parted, or cut into triangular dentate lobes, upper leaves short-petioled with divaricate lobes. Flowers terminal on long leafless peduncles, flower buds ovoid, glabrous 1.8-2.5 cm long, 1.0-1.5 cm broad. Petals obovate, crimson or dark red often spotted at the base 2.5-3.5 cm long. Capsule ovate-subglobose, rounded at the base, more or less ribbed, glaucous 1.0-1.5 cm long, 0.6-1.2 cm broad; stigma rays 7-12. Seeds small, many. Flowering from February to March.
Mountains and wadis. Abundant in Northern UAE. Masafi to Dibba road.
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