"Kay Easton" wrote in message
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In article , Franz Heymann
writes

"Ron Clark" wrote in message
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On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 13:02:51 -0000, Fenton@O'Shea wrote:

Any advice please on when I should sow poppy seeds,what type of soil
do
they
prefer?

I have always wondered what it is that makes one particular species of
poppy
produce that very expensive resin. Has anybody experimented with any of
the
common or garden species/varieties to find out if they might actually be
worth their weight in gold?

P nudicaule 'contains some opium ...used locally to relieve pain'
(Usher: A Dictionary of plants used by man)

I imagine some of the others do too, but maybe in lesser amounts/not so
easily extractable?

But there again - why do we drink Camellia sinensis, but not C japonica
or C drupifera?

If, as you say, P. nudicaule contains some opium, which of us is boing to
have a look to see if it is there in commercially viable quantities?

Franz