Women and children of poppy ... of color, simultaneously innocent and obscene, that finally screams out what it can only be: a field of poppies. A farmer squats with his back to the flowers ...

The climate of these parts of Asia seems peculiarly adapted to the growth of the species of poppy (papaver somniferum), from which opium is obtained ; accumulating in the juice of the plant the ...

A 3-year-old boy who loves plants has been honored by police for finding a banned opium poppy in his neighborhood. Kawamura Yuki discovered a plant with blooming purple flowers in an open area ...

Opium, the base from which morphine and heroin are produced, is harvested from poppy flowers. Meanwhile, Myanmar registered growth in cultivation and production from 2021 through 2023, which UNODC ...

Iran where much of the illegal poppy plants supplying the opium are grown. With the Iranians focusing on the supply, the western agents are focusing on the trafficking. Out of an unfortunate ...