In a recipe for seed cake, the 2006 edition of “Joy of Cooking” refers to “bygone days of antimacassars and aspidistra plants, when seeds were used instead of extracts.” A savvy cook will still ...

After cutting ripened breadseed poppy pods, store in paper bags and use them as needed like salt shakers to disperse the seeds over baking and in other cooking. The seeds are commonly used in baking.

Could be rabbits. They chew even tough stems to topple plants, which they then eat. Setting up wire fencing around plants works, but it’s not convenient in all situations. The netting should be a ...

For the past 6,000 years, humans have cultivated poppy flowers, including Papaver somniferum, which is one of several species ...

Poppy seeds come from a species of poppy plant called Papaver somniferum. “Somniferum” is Latin for “sleep-bringing,” which hints that it might contain opiates – powerful compounds that depress the ...

The opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, is the type of poppy from which opium and all refined opiates such as morphine (up to 20%), thebaine (5%), codeine (1%), papaverine (1%), and narcotine (5-8%) are ...