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Utilization of Papaver

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The well-known opium poppy (Papaver somniferum L.) furnishes opiates, ornamentals, poppy seed, poppy seed oil, poppycake, poppy flour, poppy straw and potherbs. Poppies also furnish analgesics, anodynes, ant food, antibiotics, anti-malarials, aphrodisiacs, baby rattles, bird food, copper indicators, cough remedies, demulcents, diaphoretics, diarrhea cures, febrifuges, fuel, fumitories, goiter treatments, hemostatics, hypnotics, imbedding media, indicators of the geographic origin of opium, molybdenum indicators, polyploidy inducers, salad vegetables, sedatives, sudorifics, tranquilizers and vesicants.

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Duke, J.A. Utilization of Papaver. Econ Bot 27, 390–400 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02860692

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