[MEDICINAL FLOWERS] [4] The Poppy (Papaver rhoeas)

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Hello everyone today I present to you a Poppy, yes just one and why? Because it is abnormal to find a poppy in my region in October. The Poppy is from the Papaveraceae family, it is an annual herbaceous. The flowering and the seed this place just before the harvest

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Here you can see her on the edge of a wasteland and he's all alone. Usually it proliferates in groups. The plant is very small and grows in the wild here. The seed can stay 50 years in the ground and germinate if the conditions allow it and a poppy can produce up to 40,000 seeds that is why in this few seeds have found some super seed.

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The poppy is composed of alkaloids its properties can be slightly sedative, the poppy is a calming cough. Farmers don't like it too much but its remains a plant that brightens up our garden along the roads, it gives a bit of color, the flowering only lasts a few days.

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I also added a black and white photo to see it under another light spectrum

All original photos @Cyboule