Dried poppy pods are often considered ornamental, no jokes here. However, they have a much wider range of uses, beyond their ...

5. Poppies are needed to make morphine Morphine is created from the milky latex in the seed head of the opium poppy. For this reason, the poppy is featured on the Royal College of Anaesthetists ...

The shape of the jug has been thought to resemble the poppy seed head, said Dr Smith Traces of opiates preserved inside a 3,500-year-old jug have been found by scientists. The late Bronze Age base ...