…a poppy? yes. Adding geographic location would help people give you an ID beyond that.
Azsunyx
a poppy, probably not THAT kind of poppy, but i know more about flowers than i do about opium
throwawaybsme
Poppy. All poppies are legal in the US. You can own them, plant them, grow them, harvest seeds for muffins, etc. The only thing illegal is using it to create the illegal substance.
It is legal to grow Papaver somniferum in the United States for garden and seed production purposes; it is illegal to manufacture opium from the poppies.
Happy-Example-1022
Papaver somniferum, opium poppy. Annual.
Still-Livin-Life
Its a Poppy
mrshelmstreet
It’s a poppy.. Looks like asian or corn poppy to me.
FormerlyMauchChunk
Indeedly doo, neighbor.
classcup
Papaver sonniferum “!!!
Allidapevets
Poppy
beans3710
Looks like it to me. I had them at an old house of mine. They are perennials so they come back every spring. They are totally legal to grow in the US.
Krickett72
Poppy
Mancsn0tLancs
Poppies. The herpes of the plant world.
AquilaEquinox
Just a poppy, yes?
peebs90
Lame post
trikakeep
I believe is Papaver orientale or Oriental poppy, not the opium poppy which is Papaver somniferum. Seeing the leaves could confirm ID.
jesusbuiltmyhotrodd
Well, it’s not marijuana.
haku0705
Fun fact, the poppies used to produce medicines are the same kind of poppy that produces edible seeds. When you harvest the seeds you have to wash off the latex or else it’ll poison whoever eats it.
Alternatively…..
Fun fact, after you harvest the opium from your poppies, you can use the seeds in your baked goods. They aren’t intoxicating after the opium is washed off, but they’re still delicious.
On a very serious note, harvesting the latex from ornamental poppies and trying to use it as if it were opium can have a fatal end. A lot of them produce papaverine and thebaine, alkaloids that are present in the latex of the opium poppy, papaver somniferum. The problem is that they don’t produce morphine or codeine in meaningful amounts, so people don’t get the intoxicating effects. This makes them consume more of what they think is opium, but they end up giving themselves a lethal dose of some other alkaloid that has a messy, and often painful, end. I’ve done a lot of research trying to grow my own, back when I was in some bad habits. It’s easy to do, with some basic gardening skills, and if you have a medicinal herb garden, it has lots of legitimate uses. The problem is that it’s also easy to mess up, not realize you messed up, then put what you don’t realize is poison in your body.
TL:DR- Not all poppies make opium, but they (almost) all produce latex with some combination of possibly deadly and not fun substances in them.
jana-meares
That. Is a common poppy. Papa er somniferum. It can be opium. FYI
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…a poppy? yes. Adding geographic location would help people give you an ID beyond that.
a poppy, probably not THAT kind of poppy, but i know more about flowers than i do about opium
Poppy. All poppies are legal in the US. You can own them, plant them, grow them, harvest seeds for muffins, etc. The only thing illegal is using it to create the illegal substance.
[opium poppy](https://metchosinfarm.ca/products/opium-poppy)
So yes it is. I like their seeds on my bagels. Making opium and processing it into heroine is quite the process. Very labour intensive.
Certainly looks like opium poppy going by the flower and seedhead. Foliage should be a blueish colour, like the one in my pic below.
https://preview.redd.it/s797nvsh6qoe1.jpeg?width=2880&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=672b710b8a4a489c935f0bf8a66281aebcf1ee5a
It looks similar to opium poppy, Papaver somniferum.
https://preview.redd.it/88raoote7qoe1.jpeg?width=1222&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a028f475e5a4598c8b6ac944d469c454ae889d97
It is legal to grow Papaver somniferum in the United States for garden and seed production purposes; it is illegal to manufacture opium from the poppies.
Papaver somniferum, opium poppy. Annual.
Its a Poppy
It’s a poppy.. Looks like asian or corn poppy to me.
Indeedly doo, neighbor.
Papaver sonniferum “!!!
Poppy
Looks like it to me. I had them at an old house of mine. They are perennials so they come back every spring. They are totally legal to grow in the US.
Poppy
Poppies. The herpes of the plant world.
Just a poppy, yes?
Lame post
I believe is Papaver orientale or Oriental poppy, not the opium poppy which is Papaver somniferum. Seeing the leaves could confirm ID.
Well, it’s not marijuana.
Fun fact, the poppies used to produce medicines are the same kind of poppy that produces edible seeds. When you harvest the seeds you have to wash off the latex or else it’ll poison whoever eats it.
Alternatively…..
Fun fact, after you harvest the opium from your poppies, you can use the seeds in your baked goods. They aren’t intoxicating after the opium is washed off, but they’re still delicious.
On a very serious note, harvesting the latex from ornamental poppies and trying to use it as if it were opium can have a fatal end. A lot of them produce papaverine and thebaine, alkaloids that are present in the latex of the opium poppy, papaver somniferum. The problem is that they don’t produce morphine or codeine in meaningful amounts, so people don’t get the intoxicating effects. This makes them consume more of what they think is opium, but they end up giving themselves a lethal dose of some other alkaloid that has a messy, and often painful, end. I’ve done a lot of research trying to grow my own, back when I was in some bad habits. It’s easy to do, with some basic gardening skills, and if you have a medicinal herb garden, it has lots of legitimate uses. The problem is that it’s also easy to mess up, not realize you messed up, then put what you don’t realize is poison in your body.
TL:DR- Not all poppies make opium, but they (almost) all produce latex with some combination of possibly deadly and not fun substances in them.
That. Is a common poppy. Papa er somniferum. It can be opium. FYI
What do you think it is? Why do people do this?
The only rose that knows your name.
How are we supposed to know what you think it is?