The climate of these parts of Asia seems peculiarly adapted to the growth of the species of poppy (papaver somniferum), from which opium is obtained ; accumulating in the juice of the plant the ...

A 3-year-old boy who loves plants has been honored by police for finding a banned opium poppy in his neighborhood. Kawamura Yuki discovered a plant with blooming purple flowers in an open area ...

The single white poppy, or rather the poppy, with white seeds, is generally considered the true opium plant. When the capsules are about half grown, or three or four days after the flower has ...

The first British poppy crop was destroyed by hares In the 19th Century, British horticulturalists who were incentivised by the booming opium trade ... from the poppy plant and with illustrations ...

Pink gladiolus flowers are often associated with romance but to a less passionate extent. Yellow Gladiolus ... Extracts from the Opium poppy (Papaver ‘somniferum’) are used to make a class ...

Opium, the base from which morphine and heroin are produced, is harvested from poppy flowers. Meanwhile, Myanmar registered growth in cultivation and production from 2021 through 2023, which UNODC ...