Poppies

There are many different varieties of poppies growing wild all over the world. While opium poppies can have both medicinal and narcotic uses, most other members of the family papaver are harmless and colourful accents in the landscape and in gardens. These pretty pink specimens were growing wild on a hillside in Andalusia, Spain.

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