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Picture. What's this? Poppy?
This is "cardamom", which is a kind of spice and a Chinese herbal medicine.

"Poppy millet" is like this:

Annual herb, hairless or sparsely covered with few bristles on the lower part of the plant or the total pedicel, 30-60 (- 100) cm high, and the cultivator can reach 1.5 m.. The taproot is nearly conical and vertical. Stems erect, unbranched, glabrous, with white powder. Leaves alternate, the leaves are ovate or oblong, 7-25 cm long, the apex is acuminate to obtuse, the base is heart-shaped, the edge is irregular and wavy, both sides are hairless, with white powder, the veins are obvious and slightly protruding; The lower leaves have short stalks, and the upper leaves have no stalks and hold stems.

Flowers are solitary; Pedicels up to 25 cm long, glabrous or sparsely setose. The flower buds are ovoid, oblong or broadly ovoid, with a length of 1.5-3.5 cm and a width of 1-3 cm, without hair; Sepals 2, broadly ovate, green, with membranous margin; Petals 4, nearly round or nearly fan-shaped, 4-7 cm long and 3- 1 1 cm wide, with wavy edges or various splits, white, pink, red, purple or variegated colors; Stamens are numerous, filaments are linear, long 1- 1.5 cm, white, anthers are oblong, 3-6 mm long and pale yellow; The ovary is spherical, with a diameter of1-2cm, green and hairless. The stigma is (5-)8- 12(- 18), radiating, and connected into a flat disc. The disc edge is deeply divided, and the lobes have crenulate teeth.

Capsule is spherical or oblong, 4-7 cm long and 4-5 cm in diameter, glabrous and brown when mature.

Most seeds are black or dark gray, and the surface is honeycomb. The flowering and fruiting period is 3- 1 1 month.