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A history of The Poppy of Remembrance: Apr 3, 7:59am 2 reviews military
http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-tributes/poppy.htm; A poppy is any of a number of showy flowers, typically with one per stem, belonging to the poppy family. They include a number of attractive wildflower species with showy flowers found growing singularly or in large groups; many species are also grown in gardens. Those that are grown in gardens include large plants used in a mixed herbaceous boarder and small plants that are grown in rock or alpine gardens.

The flower color of poppy species include: white, pink, yellow, orange, red and blue; some have dark center markings. The species that have been cultivated for many years also include many other colors ranging from dark solid colors to soft pastel shades. The center of the flower has a whorl of stamens surrounded by a cup- or bowl-shaped collection of four to six petals. Prior to blooming, the petals are crumpled in bud, and as blooming finishes, the petals often lie flat before falling away.

Poppies may be found in the genera:

* Meconopsis - Himalayan poppy, Welsh poppy and relatives.
* Papaver - Iceland poppy, Oriental poppy, Opium poppy, corn poppy and about 120 other species.
* Romneya - Matilija poppy and relatives.
* Eschscholzia - California poppy and relatives.
* Stylophorum - Celandine-poppy, mock poppy, yellow-poppy, wood-poppy.
* Argemone - Prickly-poppy
* Canbya - Pygmy-poppy
* Stylomecon - Wind-poppy
* Arctomecon - Desert bearclaw-poppy
* Hunnemannia - Tulip poppy
* Dendromecon - Tree poppy

The pollen of the oriental poppy, Papaver orientale, is dark blue. The pollen of the field poppy or corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas) is dark blue to grey. Bees will use poppies as a pollen source.

The opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, is grown for opium, opiates or seeds to be used in cooking and baking, eg. poppy seed rolls.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Koeh-102.jpg; Opium poppy

The opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, is the type of poppy from which opium and all refined opiates such as morphine, thebaine, codeine, papaverine, and noscapine are extracted. The binomial name means, loosely, the "sleep-bringing poppy", referring to its narcotic properties. The seeds are important food items, and contain healthy oils used in salads worldwide. The plant is also important for ornamental use.

Papaver somniferum is a species of plant with many sub-groups or varieties. Colors of the flower vary widely, as do other physical characteristics such as number and shape of petals, number of pods, production of morphine, etc.

Papaver somniferum Paeoniflorum Group (sometimes called Papaver paeoniflorum) is a sub-type of opium poppy whose flowers are highly double, and are grown in many colors. Papaver somniferum Laciniatum Group (sometimes called Papaver laciniatum) is a sub-type of opium poppy whose flowers are highly double and deeply lobed, to the point of looking like a ruffly pompon.

A few of the varieties, notably the "Norman" and "Przemko" varieties, have "low morphine" content (less than one percent), making them markedly less useful for drug production. Most varieties, however, including those most popular for ornamental use or seed production, have a higher morphine content.

Poppies as medicine
In both India and Turkey, opium production is used for medicinal purposes, making poppy-based drugs, such as morphine or codeine, for domestic use or exporting raw poppy materials to other countries. The United States buys 80 percent of its medicinal opium from these two countries. However, there is an acute global shortage of opium poppy-based medicines some of which (morphine) are on the World Health Organisation's list of essential drugs as they are the most effective way of relieving severe pain. A recent initiative to extend opium production for medicinal purposes called Poppy for Medicine was launched by The Senlis Council which thinks that Afghanistan could produce medicinal opium under a scheme similar to that operating in Turkey and India.

The Council proposes licensing poppy production in Afghanistan, within an integrated control system supported by the Afghan government and its international allies, in order to promote economic growth in the country, create vital drugs and combat poverty and the diversion of illegal opium to drug traffickers and terrorist elements. With poppy for medicine projects, opium poppy can be used as a valuable resource.

The opium trade finances the Taliban resistance in Afghanistan. Efforts to eliminate the trade have seen limited success. Poppy fields are just too numerous, alternative crops too few and the Afghan government too corrupt; plus the Taliban aren't taking eradication sitting down:

"As I walked along a trail between the poppy fields, gunshots rang out. Men began running, taking cover, and looking up toward the village on the bluff; the firing seemed to be coming from the mud-walled compounds there. Kelly, the ex-cop from Arizona, yelled at me to take cover. I headed toward a stand of trees with Aaron Huey, the photographer who was travelling with me; from there we could no longer see any other Americans. (...)

by New Yorker scribe Jon Lee Anderson
warisboring.com [warisboring.com]

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http://www.franceyogaretreat.com/images/poppies.jpg; Food and drink

Poppy is widely consumed in many parts of Central and Eastern Europe. The sugared, milled mature seeds are eaten with pasta, or they are boiled with milk and used as filling or topping on various kinds of sweet pastry.

Poppy seeds are widely used in Bengali cuisine and in Oriya cuisine.

In Mexico, Grupo Modelo, the makers of Corona beer, until the 1960s used red poppy flowers in its advertising, where almost any image it used had poppy flowers somewhere in the image.

The seeds of the poppy are widely used as the popular "poppy seed" found in and on many food items such as bagels, bialys, muffins and cakes. The seeds can be pressed to form poppyseed oil, which can be used in cooking, or as a carrier for oil-based paints.

Although the amount of opiates in poppy seeds is not enough to produce a narcotic effect in cooking or consumption, the television show MythBusters demonstrated that one could test positive for narcotics after consuming 4 poppy seed bagels. The show Brainiac: Science Abuse had subjects that tested positive with only 2 poppy seed bagels. This situation was parodied on the show Seinfeld.

In India, Iran and Turkey opium poppy is known as Khaskhas or Haşhaş (pronounced: "Hashhash" or in Persian: "Khash Khaash") and is considered a highly nutritious food item, mostly added in dough while baking bread, highly recommended for pregnant women and new mothers.

In Lithuania and Eastern Slovakia a traditional meal is prepared for the Kūčios (Christmas Eve) dinner from the poppy seeds. They are ground and mixed with water; round yeast biscuits (kūčiukai) (slovak - Bobalky) are soaked in the resulting poppy seed 'milk' and served cold.

In Hungary poppy strudel and traditional bejgli is very popular in winter, especially during Christmas.

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http://gallery.nen.gov.uk/gallery_images/0506/0000/0831/poppies01_mid.jpg; History of the Opium Poppy

Use of the opium poppy predates written history. Images of opium poppies have been found in ancient Sumerian artifacts (ca. 4000 BC)(southwest of modern Iran). The opium poppy was also known to the ancient Greeks, from whom it gained its modern name of Opium. In historic contexts from Greece remains have been discovered in proto-geometric contexts at sites such as kalapodi and Kastanas.

Opium was used for treating asthma, stomach illnesses, and bad eye sight. The Opium Wars between China and the British Empire took place in the late 1830s when the Chinese attempted to stop the sale of opium by Britain, in China.

Many modern writers, particularly in the nineteenth century, have written on the opium poppy and its effects, notably L. Frank Baum with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and Thomas de Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater...

(Working drawing for poppy shade, ca. 1900-15,
Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933)American Tiffany Studios (1902-1938)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Opium-smoker of Romance, China

On March 30th I reached Tak-wan-hsien, the day's stage having been seventy li (twenty-three and one-third miles). I was carried all the way by three chair-coolies in a heavy chair in steady rain that made the unpaved track as slippery as ice--and this over the dizzy heights of a mountain pathway of extraordinary irregularity. Never slipping, never making a mistake, the three coolies bore the chair with my thirteen stone, easily and without straining. From[Pg 94] time to time they rested a minute or two to take a whiff of tobacco; they were always in good humour, and finished the day as strong and fresh as when they began it. Within an hour of their arrival all these three men were lying on their sides in the room opposite to mine, with their opium-pipes and little wooden vials of opium before them, all three engaged in rolling and heating in their opium-lamps treacly pellets of opium. Then they had their daily smoke of opium. "They were ruining themselves body and soul." Two of the men were past middle age; the third was a strapping young fellow of twenty-five. They may have only recently acquired the habit, I had no means of asking them; but those who know Western China will tell you that it is almost certain that the two elder men had used the opium-pipe as a stimulant since they were as young as their companion. All three men were physically well-developed, with large frames, showing unusual muscular strength and endurance, and differed, indeed, from those resurrected corpses whose fleshless figures, drawn by imaginative Chinese artists, we have known for years to be typical of our poor lost brothers--the opium-smoking millions of China. (...)

From Project Gutenberg's An Australian in China, by George Ernest Morrison

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http://www.henriksimonsen.com/img/paint/37-poppies-ii.jpg; Poppies Blooming
Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926)

http://www.patchworkpig.biz/osc/eshop/images/PP05075%20B225-224%20Poppy%20Poppie…: Apr 3, 7:44am 1 review poppies
http://www.patchworkpig.biz/osc/eshop/images/PP05075%20B225-224%20Poppy%20Pop...; Poppy Field, Argenteuil, 1875
Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926)

The year 1875 marked a difficult moment for Monet. Sales of his work, and thus his income, were down significantly from the preceding years. The group of friends who had organized the first Impressionist exhibition of 1874 could not agree on the terms of a second exhibition, and the March 1875 auction that was held instead produced poor prices. YetMonet pressed forward, continuing to paint pictures remarkable for their calm beauty and intimation of life unencumbered by worry. In his views of Argenteuil days are always sunny,poppies bloom continuously, children cavort freely, and ladies have nothing more pressing to do than to stroll with their parasols. In this respect his work of the mid-1870s resembles that of Camille Corot, who died in February 1875. Like Corot at Ville-d'Avray,Monet chose motifs close to home--and improved on them.

This beautiful, archetypal Impressionist landscape betrays neither Monet's personal concerns nor those of the town of Argenteuil. Little could the viewer have realized that the plain of Gennevilliers, depicted here, had become a dumping ground for Parisian effluent. We must recognize, then, thatMonet 's painting was an act of consolation (for himself) and reassurance (for his prospective patrons) that nature and simple pleasures would endure. (written by Gary Tinterow from MET Museum)

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Poppy_bud_opening.jpg: Apr 3, 7:37am 1 review photography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Poppy_bud_opening.jpg; "If I could paint the flower exactly as I see it no one would see what I see because I would paint it small like the flower is small. So I said to myself - I'll paint what I see - what the flower is to me but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking the time to look at it - I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers."
- Georgia O'Keefe

Georgia O'Keefe's Poppy...

O'Keeffe has been a major figure in American art since the 1920s. She is chiefly known for paintings in which she synthesized abstraction and representation in paintings of flowers, rocks, shells, animal bones and landscapes. Her paintings present crisply contoured forms that are replete with subtle tonal transitions of varying colors. She often transformed her subject matter into powerful abstract images.