![]() ![]() Most varieties of poppy dislike being transplanted, but with close attention, you can make it work. Most poppies have seed pods like salt shakers, although in some varieties such as Oriental poppies, the seeds won’t produce true copies of the parent. Opium poppies have lettuce-like leaves clasping flower stems, but other species have fernlike leaves that link petioles (stems) to stalks. Seeds of breadseed poppies are used in salad dressings too (my favorite), and I’ve heard that folks favoring food that includes those seeds cannot pass drug tests, so beware if you’re applying for a job. They tore out Oriental poppies, there weren’t any opium poppies there. I heard years ago they did just that to a woman’s flower bed in central Idaho, although the drug agents misidentified the plants. Drug agents can rip plants out of your garden, but they seldom do that. somniferum, but technically it’s illegal to grow them. It is legal to sell seeds or plants of P. Peony poppies and breadseed poppies are subgroups of Papaver somniferum, or opium poppy. The closely related breadseed poppy tends to have single blossoms of red, pink or lavender petals, with a dark Maltese cross surrounding the center of the blossoms.
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