Amphora - Poppy
This variety offers elegant single or double flowers, ranging from pure white to sugared pink. The amphora-shaped fruits contain oleaginous seeds. Dried, they can be used like small musical percussion instruments!
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in bucket, in the ground
Sow in trays under light shelter. Transplant into pots when plants reach 3 or 4 cm. Plant out after the last frosts, 30 cm apart in all directions. You can also sow directly in situ, covering the seeds very lightly. Keep the soil moist. Then thin out to 30 cm in all directions. Staggered sowing will prolong flowering. Autumn sowing can be used for early spring flowering.
February, March, April
April, May, September, October
May, June, July, August, September, October
in the ground, in pot
sunny
medium
all floor types
drained, light, sec
Papaver somniferum
400 seeds
Pink
From 70 to 80 cm
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Papaver somniferum contains morphine, a pain-relieving nervous system sedative, as well as codeine, used to relieve coughs. Papaverine is also one of its compounds, a smooth muscle antispasmodic used against diarrhea and biliary colic. Be careful with this species, whose alkaloids are narcotic.
