It's tempting to wonder if that little jar of grocery store poppy seeds in your pantry could do more than top bagels — could they grow flowers in your garden, too? Most culinary poppy seeds come from ...

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 seeds come from a species of poppy plant called Papaver somniferum. “Somniferum” is Latin for “sleep-bringing,” which hints that it might contain opiates – powerful compounds that depress the ...

The opium poppies are coming into flower in our High Garden nursery stock bed, the main season of which is mid- to late-summer. These are plants which sowed themselves last year, and germinated this ...

A. Papaver somniferum is the species of poppy used to manufacture opium. While the blossoms are beautiful and the plant often will self-seed in well-drained alkaline soil, it is illegal to grow this ...