On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article poppy steak. This article is about the plant. A poppy is a flowering plant in the subfamily Papaveroideae of the family Papaveraceae.

Poppies are herbaceous plants, often grown for their colourful flowers. Poppies are herbaceous annual, biennial or short-lived perennial plants. Some species are monocarpic, dying after flowering. Poppies can be over a metre tall with flowers up to 15 centimetres across. Poppy stems next to jars of blue, gray, and white poppy seeds used for pastries. The flowers of most poppy species are attractive and are widely cultivated as annual or perennial ornamental plants. Poppy seeds are rich in oil, carbohydrates, calcium and protein.

Poppy oil is often used as cooking oil, salad dressing oil, or in products such as margarine. Poppy oil can also be added to spices for cakes, or breads. Poppy cultivators being interviewed in a poppy field. A few species have other uses, principally as sources of drugs and foods. The opium poppy is widely cultivated and its worldwide production is monitored by international agencies. Poppy seeds contain small quantities of both morphine and codeine, which are pain-relieving drugs.

Poppy seeds and fixed oils can also be nonnarcotic because when they are harvested about twenty days after the flower has opened, the morphine is no longer present. Papaver somniferum was domesticated by the indigenous people of Western and Central Europe between 6000 and 3500 BC. However, it is believed that its origins may come from the Sumerian people, where the first use of opium was recognized. The eradication of poppy cultivation came about in the early 1900s through international conferences due to safety concerns associated with the production of opium. In the 1970s the American war on drugs targeted Turkish production of the plant, leading to a more negative popular opinion of the U. The girl’s given name “Poppy” is taken from the name of the flower. In Mexico, Grupo Modelo, the makers of Corona beer, used red poppy flowers in most of its advertising images until the 1960s.

A poppy flower is depicted on the reverse of the North Macedonian 500-denar banknote, issued in 1996 and 2003. The 2004 Canadian “poppy” quarter was the world’s first coloured circulation coin. Poppies have long been used as a symbol of sleep, peace, and death: Sleep because the opium extracted from them is a sedative, and death because of the common blood-red colour of the red poppy in particular. In Greek and Roman myths, poppies were used as offerings to the dead. Red-flowered poppy is unofficially considered the national flower of the Albanians in Albania, Kosovo and elsewhere.

This is due to its red and black colours, the same as the colours of the flag of Albania. Red poppies are also the national flower of Poland. The powerful symbolism of Papaver rhoeas has been borrowed by various advocacy campaigns, such as the White Poppy and Simon Topping’s black poppy. A Canadian remembrance poppy worn on the lapel. The poppy of wartime remembrance is Papaver rhoeas, the red-flowered corn poppy. Veterans of Foreign Wars, which provides money to the veterans who assemble the poppies and various aid programs to veterans and their families.

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