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Bay Curious

Can You Go To Jail For Picking California’s State Flower?

Bay Curious

KQED

History, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.9999 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2017

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Rumor has it California's golden poppy has some special protections. Is it true? Reported by Jessica Placzek. Produced and edited by Olivia Allen-Price, Paul Lancour, Suzie Racho, Erika Kelly and Julia McEvoy. Theme music by Pat Mesiti-Miller. Ask us a question at BayCurious.org. Follow Olivia Allen-Price on Twitter @oallenprice.

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0:00.0

From K-Q-QED.

0:03.0

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

0:07.0

listener questions about the Bay Area.

0:09.0

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

0:12.0

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

0:15.0

And his question was,

0:16.7

Is it legal to pick California Golden Poppies?

0:20.0

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

0:25.3

They look like they're glowing.

0:26.8

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

0:31.6

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

0:36.4

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

0:46.4

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

0:51.4

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

0:56.4

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

1:02.1

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1:14.0

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1:20.0

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

1:23.2

Okay, well let's go on a hunt.

1:25.2

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

1:29.4

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

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