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The dangerous red flower

Dawn 11 Jan 2025
Hey Kit,” Din Din said as he greeted his garden caretaker. “Ready for your day out?” ... “These red flowers are actually poppies; one species, Papaver somniferum, is the source of a drug which if had in excess can be dangerous,” explained Dr Trish ... .
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Bits and Pieces 12.05.24

The East Hampton Star 05 Dec 2024
Holiday Shows ... A Holiday Rewrite.” ... Participants have been invited to take samples or photographs, and Pamela Harwood, the program’s moderator, will bring free seeds for fall or winter sowing of Papaver somniferum (opium poppy) for a spring display ... .
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As heroin in Afghanistan dries up, Europe could face an overdose crisis like the U.S.

Yahoo Daily News 19 Oct 2024
In Europe, the last few decades have played out differently ... Unlike synthetic opioids produced using chemicals in a lab, heroin and morphine are refined from the gum extracted from Papaver somniferum, the opium poppy ... Secretary of State Colin Powell.
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1982- Asian Immigrants Eating Squirrels, Ducks, and Dogs – NY Times

Armstrong Economics 12 Sep 2024
This whole thing about eating cats and dogs has stirred up a hornet’s nest ... That was even reported in the New York Times. These people also led to demands to shut the border ... Seattle police found more than 4000 Papaver somniferum ... ....
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Mummified brains show cocaine arrived in Europe far earlier than we thought

Popular Science 27 Aug 2024
In 2023, for example, mummified brain and bone samples tested positive opium usage through the presence of Papaver somniferum (poppy seeds), as well as cannabis—the latter of which was previously undocumented for the time ... ....
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South Korean airport authorities crackdown on Trader Joe’s bagel seasoning

AOL 17 Jul 2024
“We would like to inform you that the following products containing poppy seeds are restricted from being brought into the country as ‘Papaver Somniferum L,’ an ingredient of the poppy family ...
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South Korean airport authorities crack down on Trader Joe’s bagel seasoning

The Observer 17 Jul 2024
“We would like to inform you that the following products containing poppy seeds are restricted from being brought into the country as ‘Papaver Somniferum L,’ an ingredient of the poppy family ...
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The shocking reason iconic Trader Joe

The Daily Mail 16 Jul 2024
These seeds come from a species of poppy plant called Papaver somniferum which in Latin means sleep-bringing which insinuates that it might contain opiates.
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This Trader Joe’s seasoning is a hot item — but in this country, it’s illegal

New York Post 16 Jul 2024
But in South Korea, the item is actually illegal ... Poppy seeds derive from a plant called Papaver somniferum, the opium poppy. “Somniferum” is Latin for “sleep-bringing,” insinuating that it might contain opiates ... 3 ... ....
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Tom Karwin, On Gardening | Selecting water plants

Santa Cruz Sentinel 04 Jul 2024
(Photo by Tom Karwin) ... (Photo by Tom Karwin) ... Opium or Breadseed Poppy (Papaver somniferum) This photo features the seed capsules of one of the oldest cultivated plant species, with archaeological evidence dating back to the earliest Neolithic ages ... of.
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Garden Guy column: June maintenance

Amarillo Globe-News 02 Jun 2024
Garden maintenance begins to pick up this month, even as we are still planting. Some early blooming spring perennials will benefit from being cut back ... I have never had a problem with my poppies (Papaver somniferum) being too aggressive.
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Wildbuzz: Doesn’t matter how, petals scatter now

Hindustan Times 14 Apr 2024
To improvise from Thomas Moore’s verses ... Culture, especially the West’s use of the ornamental corn field poppy (Papaver rhoeas) as a flower of remembrance for fallen soldiers, has conflated this species with the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum) ... Prof.
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Planting time is now: 30-plus ways to get growing in the April garden

San Diego Union-Tribune 06 Apr 2024
That’s the pattern we are seeing this year so far, though we may just get April showers, too ... Take a hike ... nasturtium, flowering sweet peas, native California poppies, breadseed poppies (Papaver somniferum), wild sweet peas (Lathyrus vestitus) ... .
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Amitav Ghosh’s Reckoning With Opium

The New Republic 01 Mar 2024
It takes some daring to choose opium as your historical protagonist ... When writing about the historical force of plants, any other flower will prove more cooperative, if duller, than Papaver somniferum.
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Poppies popular for colorful blossoms, symbolism

Gettysburg Times 10 Nov 2023
Another genus of poppy perhaps not found in many Pennsylvania gardens today but still familiar from countless news stories and TV documentaries is Papaver somniferum (Opium Poppy) ... The variety of plants in the Papaver family is extraordinary.

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