Poppy seedlings can be eaten as vegetables. Poppy is basically edible. Except for straw, poppy is not the same as drugs, but high-purity opium and other synthetic products extracted from poppy are drugs.

1. Poppy: It can be called nearly 180 species of Papaver, or it can be called poppy according to Flora of China.

2. Poppy is a kind of panicum miliaceum. The stem is 30-80 cm high, branched and has spreading coarse hair. Leaves alternate, pinnately parted, lobes lanceolate or strip lanceolate, with coarse hairs on both sides. The bud is ovoid, with a long stalk and drooping when it is not opened; Sepals are green and fall off after flowering; Petals 4, purplish red, there are many patterns and colors for planting poppies. The base often has dark purple spots, broadly obovate or nearly round, and the anthers are yellow; The pistil is obovoid and the stigma is radial. The flowering and fruiting period is March-165438+1October.

3. Poppy is the main raw material for opium production, and its extract is also the source of many sedatives, such as morphine, thebaine, codeine, papaverine and narcotine. The scientific name "hypnosis" means "hypnosis", which reflects its anesthetic nature. Poppy seed is an important food, which contains oil beneficial to health. It is widely used in salads all over the world. Poppy is a kind of precious ornamental plant.

4.？ Cultivars with large flowers, bright colors and double petals are garden ornamental plants. Immature fruit contains milky white paste, which is opium after drying, and its shell contains alkaloids such as morphine, codeine and papaverine. After taking the medicine, it has the functions of astringing lung, astringing intestine, relieving cough, relieving pain and hypnotizing, and can be used for treating chronic cough, diarrhea, dysentery, proctoptosis and muscle and bone pain. Seed oil is edible.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia "Poppy" Web page link