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Why do some Remembrance Day Poppies have a leaf?

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The Royal British Legion says: The original version of the poppy emblem like the natural flower did not have a leaf. However, a leaf was introduced in the 1960s as it was the practice to make up sprays to sell at that time. read more

The reason I asked the question is that a friend told me that poppies with a leaf designated that these included remembrance of lost Commonwealth servicemen & women as well as our own service personnel and another friend opined that the leaf should be worn pointing 'at eleven o'clock' as the Armistice was signed at 11 o'clock on 11/11/1918. read more

The reason the poppy has become the symbol of remembrance is that during some of the worst fighting in World War 1, in Flanders in Belgium (particularly the 3 battles of Ypres where there were hundreds of thousands of casualties) where the earth had been blasted and churned into mud, poppies were the first plants to grow back after the fighting and formed a carpet of red blooms. read more

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