Poppy (Papaver rhoeas 'Shirley Poppy') in the Poppies Database

Quoted from Seedaholic.com website:
"Originally raised in the 1880's by the Rev. W. Wilks (1843-1923) in his garden in Shirley near Croydon in Surrey, this whole remarkable race comes from one solitary flower he spotted in a waste corner among a patch of the common scarlet Field Poppies which had a very narrow edge of white. Over the coming years he worked on the progeny of this one bloom by a process of selection and elimination to give us the Shirley Poppy we know today.
When later writing on the subject, he set out what might be said to be the specification for his Poppy.
He said...
"Let it be noticed that true Shirley Poppies...
(1) are single, (2) always have a white base with (3) yellow or white stamens, anthers and pollen, (4) never have the smallest particle of black about them.
Double Poppies and Poppies with black centres may be greatly admired by some, but they are not Shirley Poppies." "

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Valuable source of pollen for honey bees/

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