• Opium poppies were used all the way back to ancient civilization
• Huge poppy fields were used in the film of The Wizard of Oz.
• Poppies bloom from mid-June all the way through October.
• In Persian Literature it is states that red corn poppies are the flower of love.
• Poppies are often found weeds on agricultural land but that proves that the land is fertile.
• Opium poppies grow in Berksire, Dorset, Hampshire, Oxfordshire, Lincolnshire, Wiltshire for medical opiates like morphine.
• Poppy seeds can remain in the soil for 8 years.
• There are different graden strains but the main ones are Shirley poppy, Iceland poppy, California poppy, Himalayan, Welsh.
• Poppy seeds contain opium alkaliods, which means that if you innocently ingest them can give a false reading on a drug test.
• Average seeds per plant can range from 10,000 to 60,000.

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Source: Telegraph