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Opium is not grown, rather the opium poppy plant (Papaver somniferum) The prefix to somniferum is somni which means sleepy.
After the opium poppy is planted it grows into a long stalk. Eventually flowers form at the top of the stalk and open with a little ball in the center with stamens (male parts containing pollen attached). This ball is the poppy pod, the flowers will fall off an all that will be left is a little pod on the end of the stalk.
This pod will grow bigger and bigger until it is ready for harvesting. Most people leave the pod on the plant and score the surface to allow opium latex to drain out the sides where it is then collected and processed into opium or heroin. The latex contains two basic active opioids, Morphine and Codeine. Most of the poppy crop uses some chemical process to turn the opium latex into heroin where it is sold in other countries like the united states.
I have no idea at the best way to do this or the actual process as I live in the United States and have never harvested poppies, or used heroin or opium, but this is generally how the plant grows.
It is quite a beautiful plant, especially right before the petals fall off and it is just quite a beautiful red poppy plant.
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∙ 12y agoit is a simple as boiling opium at 70 degrees until dissolved fully, and straining through a folded nylon stocking to remove oils and plant waste, then let dry and it should crystalize if it is good stufff!!
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∙ 12y agoThe planet is Pluto how do i know because i listend in 4th grade.
-WHAT?! It's the opium poppy, papaver somniferum
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∙ 13y agoOpium is made from the milky white latex that comes from the unripe pod of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, after it is cut.
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∙ 7y agoOpium is obtained from the unripe seed pod of the opium poppy. When the pod is cut, latex oozes out. This latex is then dried to produce opium.
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∙ 12y agoWell the opium poppy creates opium of course. With can be refined into morphine and all its diritives. Then codine and heroin.
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∙ 14y agoChina, and other oriental countries.
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Crude opium is obtained from which part of the opium poppy?
Crude opium is made of the opium poppy's latex. This latex is obtained by cutting the unripe pod of the plant.
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