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You're listening to Bay Curious, a podcast where we answer

listener questions about the Bay Area.

This week I met our question-asker in a local park.

My name is Josh Brett, and I live in Oakland.

And his question was,

Is it legal to pick California Golden Poppies?

California Golden Poppies are those bright orange flowers that are so vibrant.

They look like they're glowing.

They've got those big velvety petals and at certain times of the year you'll find

them blooming all over the place. In fact, they're the California State Flower.

It was sort of just common knowledge as a kid growing up in the Bay Area in the 90s that it was illegal. You might even go to jail for it. Nobody really

knows where they heard this from. Could be older siblings, parents, even

teachers. I'm Olivia Allen Price. Our episode today is a botanist dream.

We're going in deep on the California Golden Poppy. Support for Bay Curious is brought to you

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I met Josh in this park because I wanted to find a poppy.

Okay, well let's go on a hunt.

I've been told if we go around like to the right of this building

kind of in the little grassy area that we should be able to find some.

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