Word: eschscholtzia
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...Audubon Society Book of Wildflowers by Les Line and W.H. Hodge (Abrams; 260 pages; $37.50). Audubon Magazine Editor Line has made an art form of nature photography in color. With Walter Henricks Hodge he has produced pages of California poppies (Eschscholtzia) that seem to burst into orange flame. Line has selected 181 photos (modestly including only two of his own but eleven of Hodge's), showing in many-hued detail the strange life of epiphytes like those that amazed Columbus, and the infinitely varied floral array to be found in jungles, pampas, steppes and deserts. Hodge's text...
...Reader Needham wins his bet (score at press time: one letter), it will not be because he is correct. TIME's poppy is the tamed Eschscholtzia californica...
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