View allAll Photos Tagged OPIUM
Papaver Somnifernum
The ‘Hungarian Blue’ or ‘Bread Seed Poppy’ is a variety of the famous ‘Opium Poppy’. It was initially bred for its large, easily harvested seed pods, which produce a large amount of seeds. As with other of the Papaver species, its seed is prized for use in making bread and other culinary applications. It is grown to produce opium for use mainly by the pharmaceutical industry. It also produces alkaloids, mainly thebaine and oripavine, that are processed by the pharmaceutical industry into drugs such as hydrocodone and oxycodone.
This one was growing at the side of the track leading down to the beach at Weybourne, so I suspect it wasn’t going to be used for any if the above applications.
Thank you for your visit and your comments, they are greatly appreciated.
➽ New Release // ✾ OPIUM ✾ Exclusive For Crafty Weekend Sales and Lazy Sunday
For Crafty:
Blood Marks .v1 "CRUEL"_Evox
➛ Details :
➽ 5 Delicate and beautiful blood marks
➽ Evox
➽ Unisex
➽ Only Bom
➽ Textures 2K
For Lazy Sunday:
Blood Marks .v2 "CRUEL"_Evox
➛ Details :
➽ 5 Delicate and beautiful blood marks
➽ Evox
➽ Unisex
➽ Only Bom
➽ Textures 2K
OPIUM Artful Mainstore // OPIUM Marketplace
Enjoy your weekend ♥
I discovered this crop when it contained just one flowering poppy head, surrounded by a sea of green stalks with buds. I knew it could only get better and began visiting constantly over the following days and weeks in different conditions and times of day. It became a battle with the weather in order to capture the field in full bloom before the rain and wind ruined these fragile flowers. I met the group of farm workers who kindly allowed me access to the field and explained they were being grown under contract with the government, harvested for morphine and used in the pharmaceutical industry.
July 2015 | Wiltshire
© George Edwards Photography
Our Daily Challenge 21-26 April : The 1970's.
An iconic wallpaper stripper perfume from the 70's, by Yves St Laurent.
I loved it then, but it smells very different to me now.
Look at my most interesting photos on my website Emmanuel Cateau Photographie (English and French) - Use Firefox rather.
With us coming into poppy season again, it has got me reminiscing of 2016 when we had lots of opium crops down here in Dorset. The fields of them were huge.... some as far as the eye could see! They were grown by farmers for NHS supplies. Since that year I haven't seen anymore around here and assume local production has stopped. I'd love to see them make a come back!
I took the two hour drive to dorset to catch the poppy fields before they start to finish,so I was just in time as another week or two and they will have finished.the setting sun and the poppies are something to savour.no poppies where harmed in the taking of this photo,always try and be respectful of landowners property.