opium poppy

People discovered opium poppies in the Mediterranean, and cannabis and tea in Asia.

Unlike the opium poppy, coffee and tea plants do not press Pollan into service as a propagator.

In the first, reprinted with added material from an article first published in 1997 in Harper’s Magazine, Pollan plants opium poppies in his garden so he can experiment with opium tea.

As Afghanistan becomes more and more unstable, it has once again become a haven for opium poppy growers.

In fact, to stop growing the opium poppy has meant in some cases a decrease of 75 per cent, in the profit and value of the land.

It is produced from the heads of the Opium Poppy (Papaver somniferum).

We noticed, moreover, that the abbey lands were bright with healthy-looking opium poppy-plants.

In eight months not even Sherlock Holmes could have found a live opium poppy on the face of the earth.

The opium poppy, also a spring crop, is cultivated to some extent in the lower part of the valley.