Mature model poppie

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Poppy straw also known as opium straw , mowed opium straw , crushed poppy capsule , poppy chaff , or poppy husk is derived from opium poppies Papaver somniferum that are harvested when fully mature and dried by mechanical means, minus the ripe poppy seeds. Opium poppy straw today can be one of several different things. It is what remains after the poppy seed harvest, that is, the dried stalks, stem and leaves of poppies grown for their seeds. The dried leaves and stalks are harvested after the seed pods have been used for traditional opium extraction. The field dried leaves, stalk and seed pod are used in commercial manufacture of morphine or other poppy alkaloid derived drugs, by first processing the material to make poppy straw separating the seeds then making concentrate of poppy straw, [1] where no extraction using traditional methods of latex extraction has been made. Today, concentrate of poppy straw is a major source of many opiates and other alkaloids. The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs defines poppy straw as "all parts except the seeds of the opium poppy, after mowing".

Opium poppies traditionally are white, but also come in a variety of colors such as red and purple. Photo: AP Papaver somniferum , one of the few species of poppy that produces opium, is an annual plant with a growth cycle of days. Farmers plant seeds, which range in color from white to yellow to brown and gray, in shallow holes. Within six weeks a cabbage-like plant emerges.

Author: H. Two varieties of opium poppy were grown under irrigation for one season and their capsules analysed for morphine content by gas chromatography. Harvest of the capsules at days after flowering mature seed gave 6.