"scored" Poppy Plant

• Contributor: H.S. Photos / Alamy Stock Photo
• Image ID: E59WP6
• File size: 12.3 MB (354.8 KB Compressed download)
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• Dimensions: 2394 x 1800 px | 40.5 x 30.5 cm | 16 x 12 inches | 150dpi
• Date taken: 24 July 2014

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A Poppy is a flowering plant in the subfamily Papaveroideae of the family Papaveraceae. Poppies are herbaceous plants, often grown for their colourful flowers. One species of poppy, Papaver somniferum produces edible seeds, and is also the source of the crude drug opium which contains powerful medicinal alkaloids such as morphine and has been used since ancient times as an analgesic and narcotic medicinal and recreational drugs.

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