Opium poppies (Papaver somniferum) growing like weeds on my allotment very excited to forage the seeds. I have sunflowers and pumpkins too so we should get a good seed mix come Growing Poppies from Seed The Big Little Garden Nashua, NH Could Opium Gum be the Solution to the Overdose Crisis? Metzineres Development of a Method to Extract Opium Poppy (Papaver somniferum L.) DNA from Heroin Scientific Reports