Spreading young leaves showing red-purple pigmentation and dense hairs. ES.

Single leaf with regular teeth and rounded apex.

Bowl-shaped flower with smooth or slightly undulating edge. Two more buds in the false whorl.

Ellipsoidal fruit capsule covered in short bristles. ES.

Perhaps without Jimmy Bayne The Meconopsis Group would never have started. In 1982 Evelyn Stevens was given a Meconopsis, which was 'better' than the M. baileyi she was already growing, by a builder friend, after whom the plant was named. A rootball of the original plant had been found in a Dunblane garden in 1962. Evelyn took her plant to a Meconopsis workshop held at RBGE in 1986 but it could not be identified. Evelyn then named it 'Jimmy Bayne'. Other clones also needed identification, leading to the founding of The Meconopsis Group, which held its first meeting at RBGE in September 1998.