Shirley poppies, bred from corn poppies outside Shirley, England, in the 1880s, come up in red, pink, rose, lilac, salmon and white. Among them is a double-flowered variety known as French Flounce ...

persistence and profusion of the fragile but defiant flower — the blood red corn poppy. US and Canadian organisations first arranged for artificial poppies to be made by French war widows — the money ...

The poppy has a long association with Remembrance Day. But how did the distinctive red flower become such a potent symbol of our remembrance of the sacrifices made in past wars? Scarlet corn ...

The corn or Flanders Field poppy (Papaver rhoeas) is often seen on the lapels of people collecting for war veterans. This tradition started during World War I with the publication of poems that ...