poppy seeds are the seeds of a poppy flower—specifically the papaver somniferum. This variety, also known as a breadseed or ...

The last of July or early in August is a good time to sow the seed, as the plants stand the winter without injury. The single poppy he found to yield more opium than the double, and there is less ...

Aqa Noor Kintuz was hired as provincial chief of police in the northeastern Afghan province of Badakhshan and charged with destroying its plentiful poppy ... plants, federal subsidies for seed ...

After a few years, when all the lime had been absorbed by the plants, the poppies largely ... created from the milky latex in the seed head of the opium poppy. For this reason, the poppy is ...

The climate of these parts of Asia seems peculiarly adapted to the growth of the species of poppy ... opium only once by tapping. The tapping should be performed a few days after the flower ...

Poppy seeds are stored in pods that form on the poppy flower — specifically the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum). To harvest them, you must remove the pods and slice them open. This releases the ...

A 3-year-old boy who loves plants has been honored by police for finding a banned opium poppy in his neighborhood ... and diffuses large numbers of tiny seeds. Tokushima Prefecture conducts ...

Why Eating Poppy Seeds Can Lead to a Positive Drug Test “Poppy seeds come from the opium poppy plant, which is where opiates such as morphine, codeine, and heroin come from,” he explained to ...

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 ...

Iran where much of the illegal poppy plants supplying the opium are grown. With the Iranians focusing on the supply, the western agents are focusing on the trafficking. Out of an unfortunate ...