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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?

Thanks Kay and Rusty for the answers.
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
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