Opium Poppy

Botanical Name: Papaver somniferum

Botanical Name:
Papaver somniferum

Family:

Family

Appearance:

The annual herbaceous plant of culture, 1-1.5 m high, with the green-blue air side. It contains a whitish latex. Flowers have 4 different color petals, from white to red or purple. The capsules are greenish-gray before maturity, gaquen-mature, mature, certified. Inside, there are many gray, blue or blue-black seeds.

Origins:

Mediterranean region

Active constituents:

Acetic acids, cynic juice, meconic, citric, malic.
Morphine, thebaine, codeine, pseudomorphine, neopine, papaverine, laudanine, codamine, nacotine, narcine, narcotoline, oxinarcotine. protopine.