2012 $2 Remembrance Day 'Red Poppy' PNCSince the devastating years of the Great War, the red poppy (Papaver rhoeas) has become a vivid and resonant symbol for remembrance. This humble plant thrives in disturbed soils, and so it flowered in spring across the war ravaged landscape of the Western Front. While the flourishing of a bloom suggests renewal of life, for soldiers the vermilion red petals symbolised the blood of fellow soldiers spilt on the Western Front, a symbol popularised by the