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 ...

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 ...

Poppies are needed to make morphine Morphine is created from the milky latex in the seed head of the opium poppy ... clothing made partly from the poppy plant and with illustrations of poppies ...