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On 12/7/05 14:15, in article ,
"Jaques d'Alltrades" wrote:
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Coming back to this rather late - my step daughter drove up to Stonehenge
last night and said there was a huge field of white poppies,
stretching as
far as the eye could see. None of us know why such a vast quantity
of white
poppies is being grown but in that number, it must be as a crop, surely?
Possibly for oil?
And again - why white?
Pass. Lack of strong flavour, mayhap?
And what is poppy oil used for?
Cooking: but cooking what, I dunno.
Papaver somniferum can have flowers from white through to purple. A
google search suggests that the white flowered form is quite frequently
grown, and 'white poppy' seems to be a common name for the opium poppy.
Uses - is it still used in the manufacture of codeine?
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Kay
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