I think that’s just how those poppies are ... they just look like some sort of insane dress with layers and layers of frilly petticoats ... there were lots here when we moved in but they don’t appear any more.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Aha, I did wonder a little bit about that possibility. A poppy close to it looks much less frilly, that's why I thought it might be fasciation. Thanks!
The seed can often lie dormant in the soil for a long time until it is disturbed and then germinates. I have had a few random ones pop up this year. I will probably save the seeds and scatter them about when I pull out the summer bedding.
On second thought, some forms of fasciation can be a genetic change that is carried along the generations. Could this have originated as a form of fasciation?
@fidgetbones I've looked it up and get Sports may differ by foliage shape or color, flowers, fruit, or branch structure. The cause is generally thought to be a chance genetic mutation. Sports
with desirable characteristics are often propagated vegetatively to
form new cultivars that retain the characteristics of the new
morphology.
So sports in this sense do not produce similar offspring.
The flower does not really look like a double to me although indeed it is described as such (https://www.plant-world-seeds.com/store/view_seed_item/1447). Double flowers are nearly always sterile as the staments are converted to petals, although exception exist apparently. I wonder if this poppy is really a double or does actually fall under fasciation - or a mixture of the two.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I have one of the exceptions: double poppies whose flowers are as dense as cabbages, and they are prolific self-seeders.