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Papaver somniferum, commonly known as the opium poppy or breadseed poppy, is a species of flowering plant in the family Papaveraceae. It is the species of plant from which both opium and poppy seeds ...

Poppy, scientifically known as Papaver somniferum, is advantageous for its use in culinary applications as well as for its extensive list of health advantages in treating a variety of conditions, ...

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 ...

Their soil is cold and bitter, terrible for vegetables but ideal for heroin’s raw ingredient: Papaver somniferum, the opium poppy. Like mountain peoples from Chechnya to the Ozarks, the Wa like ...

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Opium’s use, the museum tells us, is as old as recorded history. The drug is extracted as the latex-like sap of the Papaver somniferum, the only one of more than 250 varieties of poppy flowers ...

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