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Description
Meconopsis 'Bobby Masterton' usually flowers between mid May and mid June. It has nodding sky-blue flowers with petals that overlap.
The emerging elliptical young foliage is upright, with intense red-purple pigmentation on both upper and lower surfaces. They are covered with straw-coloured hairs. The basal leaves become green as they mature. The petiole is long and can be brittle while each leaf has a pale midrib. The margins of the leaf blade have shallow serrate-dentate teeth.
The fruit capsule is long and narrow and covered with spreading bristles apart from on the sutures. The style is long and narrow. It is sterile.
Meconopsis 'Bobby Masterton' is similar in some ways to M. 'Slieve Donard' although it flowers slightly earlier. Both have sky-blue flowers; those of M. 'Bobby Masterton' may be slightly paler. The main difference can be seen in the emerging leaves. Those of M. 'Bobby Masterton' have red-purple pigmentation whilst those of M. 'Slieve Donard' are green.
Meconopsis 'Bobby Masterton' is widely available from specialist nurseries.