We primarily grow three to four species: Oriental poppy (Papaver orientale), breadseed poppy (Papaver somniferum), field poppy (Papaver rhoeas), and sometimes Iceland poppies (Papaver nudicaule).

To nobody’s surprise, poppy seeds are the seeds of a poppy flower—specifically the papaver somniferum. This variety, also ...

The climate of these parts of Asia seems peculiarly adapted to the growth of the species of poppy (papaver somniferum), from which opium is obtained ; accumulating in the juice of the plant the ...