Papaver somniferum (Introduced)

Papaver somniferum L., Sp. Pl. 508 1753. (syn: Papaver album Mill.; Papaver album-nigrum Crantz; Papaver amoenum Lindl.; Papaver amplexicaule Stokes; Papaver glabrum Gilib.; Papaver hortense Hussenot; Papaver indehiscens Dumort.; Papaver nigrum Garsault; Papaver officinale C.C.Gmelin; Papaver opiiferum Forsk.; Papaver polycephalum hort. ex E.Vilm.; Papaver setigerum var. valdesetosum Maire; Papaver somniferum var. album (Mill.) DC.; Papaver somniferum var. hortense (Huss.) Rouy & Foucaud; Papaver somniferum subsp. hortense Arcangeli; Papaver somniferum subvar hortense Huss.; Papaver somniferum subsp. nigrum (DC.) Thell.; Papaver somniferum var. nigrum DC.; Papaver somniferum subsp. nigrum Schübler & Martens; Papaver somniferum var. poecilospermum Alefeld; Papaver somniferum var. valdesetosum (Maire) Maire);
Native area unknown, Austria (I), England (I), Czech Republic (I), Slovakia (I),
Germany (I), Ireland (I), Switzerland (I), Netherlands (I), Hungary (I), Norway
(I), Poland (I), Romania (I), Sweden (I), Estonia (I), Latvia (I), Lithuania
(I), E-European Russia (I), Belarus (I), Ukraine (I), Portugal (I), Spain (I),
Gibraltar (I), Baleares (I), France (I), Malta (I), Italy (I), Serbia &
Kosovo (I), Bosnia & Hercegovina (I), Slovenia (I), Croatia (I), Montenegro
(I), Macedonia (I), Bulgaria (I), Greece (I), Crete (I), East Aegaean Isl. (I),
European Turkey (I), Crimea (I), Anatolia (I), Lebanon (I), Syria (I), Libya
(I), Morocco (I), Algeria (I), Tunisia (I), Northern Caucasus (I), Georgia
[Caucasus] (I), Siberia (I), Russian Far East (I), Tajikistan (I), Afghanistan
(I), Japan (I), Ryukyu Isl. (I), China (I), Kazakhstan (I), Korea (I), Northern
Caucasus (I), Armenia (I), Azerbaijan (I), Uzbekistan (I), Georgia [Caucasus]
(I), Australia (I) (Western Australia (I), Queensland (I), New South Wales (I),
Victoria (I), Tasmania (I)), Saudi Arabia (I), N-Yemen (I), ?Kuwait (I), Taiwan
(I), Java, trop. Africa (I), Peru (I), Ecuador (I), Lord Howe Isl. (I), Norfolk
Isl. (I), Juan Fdz. Isl. (I), Argentina (I), Chile (I), Colombia (I), Uruguay
(I), Honduras (I), Mexico (I), Venezuela (I), Azores (I) (Santa Maria Isl. (I),
Terceira (I), Sao Jorge (I), Faial (I), Corvo Isl. (I)), Madeira (I) (Madeira
Isl. (I), Ilhas Desertas (I), Porto Santo Isl. (I)), Canary Isl. (I) (Lanzarote
(I), Fuerteventura (I), Gran Canaria (I), Tenerife (I), La Gomera (I), Hierro
(I), La Palma Isl. (I)), Myanmar [Burma] (I), Bhutan (I), Sikkim (I), India
(widespread (I)), Laos (I), Vietnam (I), Sikkim (I), Nepal (I), Pakistan (I),
Bangladesh (I), USA (I) (Alabama (I), Arizona (I), California (I), Connecticut
(I), Delaware (I), Florida (I), Illinois (I), Kentucky (I), Louisiana (I),
Massachusetts (I), Maryland (I), Maine (I), Michigan (I), Minnesota (I),
Missouri (I), Montana (I), North Carolina (I), North Dakota (I), New Hampshire
(I), New Jersey (I), New Mexico (I), New York (I), Ohio (I), Oklahoma (I),
Oregon (I), Pennsylvania (I), Rhode Island (I), Tennessee (I), Texas (I), Utah
(I), Virginia (I), Vermont (I), Washington State (I), Wisconsin (I), Wyoming
(I)), Canada (Alberta (I), British Columbia (I), Manitoba (I), New Brunswick
(I), Newfoundland (I), Nova Scotia (I), Ontario (I), Quebec (I), Saskatchewan
(I)), Greenland (I), Angola (I) as per Catalogue of Life;         
 
An Ornamental garden plant, cultivated for its flowers.

A seasonal plant.
Pictures taken in March,12.
Common Poppy?

Papaver somniferum

This Papaver sominiferum as … said the cultivar is “Seriously Scarlet”.

Thanks for the id and also the cultivar name …
 

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Papaver somniferum SN 16March 13 : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2)
Garden escape?, self gown herb near jwalamukhi Himachal

Beautiful photographs, …

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Location: Taplejung, Nepal
Date: 18 April 2017
Altitude: 6000 ft. 
Papaver…????

Papaver species so far in efi.  

Leaves are amplexicaule therefore it is Opium, Papaver somniferum L.

Thank you … ID. Nepali Name : अफिम  Aphim 

This is Cultivar of Papaver somniferum.

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Location: Kalimpong, India
Date: 23 May  2017
Altitude: 5600 ft.

This appears to be the opium poppy plant but I do not know whether the pink petals are representing the typical condition. I have seen white petals in photographs shown to me. I have seen hundreds of raw and dried specimens of the whole plant and plant parts which were coming to us from all over West Bengal for identification, seized by the police and customs dept. from illegal cultivations (banned under NDPS Act. 2008).

Thanks, …, for the initial Id.
I also think these matches with images at Papaver somniferum

 

 

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Papaver Species for ID : New Jersey : 04AUG19 : AK-11 : 9 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (4)
Papaver Species seen at a cultivated garden in July,2017.

seems to be opium poppy

Thanks … Resembles one I had seen in Kashmir, different colors though. 

ya. has several colors where its still grown, like in gardens in Europe and USA and UK. etc.
in bengal rarely seen now, but still some crop up here and there in neglected areas, from the times of the opium wars and plantings by some prominent families who made their extensive fortunes and zamindaris in the opium trade and later wars with china…. many of those names we revere today had their start in illicit trades !!! including opium.
so revered in fact that i would not want to name them here.  BUT, Apparently there are prohibitions here to planting them in farms etc.
i wonder where do we get the poppy seeds in the bazaar then?
those flowers in deep jungles now are often white or creamy white or yellow. 

Common poppy flower ?
Thanks … Hope to get the Species id.
species name: Papaver somniferum  
i thought you would know that.
 

 

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Great Himalayan National Park  base camp, on 10th May, 2009; For ID 300509 ET104 – indiantreepix | Google Groups
 
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