Re: OT Opium Poppies
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- Subject: Re: OT Opium Poppies
- From: "* <s*@mtnweb.com>
- Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 10:34:37 -0600 (MDT)
I grow the big paeoy flowered poppies that are in the same family as the
opium poppies and have the big pods and seeds like the opium but are not
illegal. They are sold throught the Thompson and Morgan seed catalog and
reseed well here. I save the seeds and use them for baking. I love the
flowers in the garden. They are classified as Papaver somniferum but the
few time people in our area had to go through the court system for growing
other types of illegal flowers, charges for growing these poppies were
thrown out.
Karin Hinsen
Central Coast of California
Mild summers, Mild, wet winters
USDA Zone 8 (Zone15-16 Sunset zone)
seconfid@mtnweb.com
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> From: Henryanner@aol.com
> To: Multiple recipients of list <iris-l@rt66.com>
> Subject: Re: OT Opium Poppies
> Date: Friday, June 13, 1997 7:05 PM
>
> Walter asked:
>
> << Anybody still grow opium poppies?? >>
>
> Anyone interested in this topic should track down the long article buy
the
> very excellent writer Michael Pollan, who is himself a gardener and the
> author of the book SECOND NATURE, in the April, 1997 issue of Harper's
> Magazine. He discusses many interesting aspects of growing opium or
breadseed
> poppies--Papaver somniferum--an activity which is illegal in the U.S.
>
> Anner Whitehead, Richmond, VA
> Henry Hall henryanner@aol.com
