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  • ...id in opium, at up to 3 per cent; it is much more prevalent in the Iranian poppy (''Papaver bractreatum''), and codeine is extracted from this species in so ...ver somniferum var. album'', a plant in the [[papaveraceae]] family. Opium poppy has been cultivated and utilized throughout human history for a variety of
    40 KB (5,581 words) - 16:45, 27 September 2010
  • | image = California poppy (Eschscholzia californica) - 22.jpg | image_caption = California Poppy (''Eschscholzia californica'')
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  • ...rcup family]], whereas the greater celandine belongs to the [[Papaveraceae|poppy family]]. ...sule]]. Each has an [[elaiosome]], which attracts [[ant]]s to disperse the seeds ([[myrmecochory]]).
    8 KB (1,178 words) - 12:27, 7 July 2010
  • ...pods 40 to 60 mm in length and ripen before the foliage goes dormant. The seeds are round in shape and when ripe are black to orange-red in color. Deer wil ...s take the seeds to their nest, where they eat the elaiosomes, and put the seeds in their nest debris, where they are protected until they germinate. They a
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  • ...by animals that disperse the [[seed]]s in their droppings, even though the seeds contain toxic [[alkaloid]]s.<ref>{{cite book |author=Kay QON |title=Edible ...omitska G, Beeva Y|title=Study on the germination of Atropa Bella-Donna L. Seeds|url=http://www.bio21.bas.bg/ipp/gapbfiles/v-23/97_1-2_61-66.pdf|format=PDF|
    24 KB (3,421 words) - 12:28, 7 July 2010
  • ...nts, in creams as a moisturizing agent, for cooking, and in plastics. Hemp seeds have been used in bird seed mix as well.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.er [[Image:Shelled hemp seeds.jpg|thumb|left|Shelled hemp seeds]]
    42 KB (6,310 words) - 22:11, 21 September 2010
  • ...789062034970 | year=1974 | publisher=Rodopi}}</ref> seeds, and [[poppy tea|poppy juice]] ([[opium]]) as the chief examples.<ref>{{cite book |url=http://book
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  • ...truction, which could profit from switching from interdicting to diverting poppy production—to make medicine.<ref> [[Opium poppy|Opium poppies]] are a traditional crop in Afghanistan, and, with the war sh
    104 KB (15,254 words) - 21:58, 26 September 2010
  • ...rahisar]] region where the water buffalo are fed from the residue of poppy seeds pressed for oil. Kaymak is traditionally eaten with pastries, preserves or *[http://editore.slowfood.com/editore/riviste/slowark/EN/25/papavero.html The Poppy Growers of İsmailköy (2002)]
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  • [[Image:Sunflowers.jpg|thumb|[[Sunflower]]s, the seeds of which are the source of [[Sunflower oil]].]] * [[Mongongo|Mongongo nut]] oil (or ''manketti oil''), from the seeds of the ''Schinziophyton rautanenii'', a tree which grows in [[South Africa]
    58 KB (8,794 words) - 19:39, 13 October 2010