Agatha Christie uses the term "mecosoapies" in referring to a plant in one of her works. What is this

Question

Probably the worker who used this term was mis-pronouncing it, and so it is probably also misspelled. but what plant, that would likely go into a flower garden, has a name that sounds something like "mecosoapie"?

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Answer 1

Hi Jim, yes its a mecnopsis, a hymaylayan poppy thats an azure blue, it likes cool conditons.

Answer 2

Poppies include the Welsh Poppy Meconopsis cambrica. This is one possibility but the other plant that it could be is the blue poppy Meconopsis grandis. http://www.meconopsis.org/
The blue poppy M. betonicifolia was introduced to England in 1924 but the M. grandis was established in 1848. Any of these could be the plants. However only the Welsh Poppy can be grown in sun and in typical garden moisture. The Himalayan blues need shade and steady moisture to grow. So I would lean towards the Welsh Poppy as being the most familiar.

Answer 3

Could be Meconopsis Cambrica or Welsh Poppy. It's a western European plant with rather showy, pale yellow flowers.

Answer 4

I read the first chapter and couldn't figure out what the gardner was trying to say. especially since it is "british" english. Sorry.

'That's right, missus. We'll have them mecosoapies there and the Canterburys along the wall and as you say it ought to be got on with first thing next week.'