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3 unusual facts about Eschscholzia californica


E. californica

Eschscholzia californica, the California poppy, a plant species native to the western United States and in Mexico

Eschscholzia californica

Californidine, a chemical compound found in Eschscholzia californica

Eschscholzia californica was the first named member of the genus Eschscholzia, named by the German botanist Adelbert von Chamisso after the Baltic German botanist Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, his friend and colleague on Otto von Kotzebue’s scientific expedition to California and the greater Pacific in mid-1810s aboard the Russian ship Rurik.



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