M. 'Cruickshank'
An attractive cultivar of garden origin with large nodding flowers.
MG Rating: ★★★   
Named by: The Meconopsis Group, 2002. Registered by: The Meconopsis Group, 2002.
Flowering: May-June. Sky-blue nodding bowl-shaped flowers. Petals elliptic-ovate and only slightly overlapping at their base. Frilled margins which are slightly notched on their upper parts.
Emerging foliage: Emerging leaves: The erect leaves are suffused with a red-purple pigmentation, particularly on their lower surfaces.
Mature foliage: Mature leaves: Spreading lanceolate leaves on long petioles with the leaf margins incised with irregular serrate and slightly hooked teeth. Leaf base attenuate, apex acute.
Fruit capsule: Long narrow ellipsoid capsule covered with reflexed straw-coloured bristles except on the sutures. Long style topped with a narrow stigma. Sterile.
Etymology: Named after the Cruickshank Botanic Garden, Aberdeen where it was grown.