The original tall poppies bloomed in the garden of Tarquin the Proud, last king of Rome. To communicate that his enemies should be defeated by killing their leaders, he is said to have decapitated the tallest flowers with a stick.
Australia and New Zealand are plagued by ‘tall poppy syndrome’—but would a cure be worse than the disease?
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