* Its birth flower is the gladiolus or poppy, meaning beauty, strength of character, love, marriage and family.

Demeter's emblem is the poppy, a bright red flower that grows among the barley.

Eschscholzia californica, commonly called the California poppy or golden poppy, is a perennial and annual plant, native to the United States, and the official state flower of California.

It was selected as the state flower by the California State Floral Society in December 1890, winning out over the Mariposa lily ( genus Calochortus ) and the Matilija poppy ( Romneya coulteri ) by a landslide, but the state legislature did not make the selection official until 1903.

A common misconception associated with the plant, because of its status as a state flower, is that the cutting or damaging of the California poppy is illegal.

The California poppy, Eschscholzia californica, is the state flower of California.

Image: Red poppie. jpg | Red poppy flower

Golden poppy is a tone of gold that is the color of the California poppy — the official state flower of California — the Golden State.

The common or corn poppy was voted the county flower of Essex and Norfolk in 2002 following a poll by the wild plant conservation charity Plantlife.

In Persian literature, red poppies, especially red corn poppy flowers, are considered the flower of love.

* Recital: Ay-Ay-Ay – Agustín Lara Granada ( song ); Osmán Pérez Freire Ay, Ay, Ay, María Teresa Lara Valencia ( song ); Manuel Ponce Estrellita ; Miguel Sandoval ( composer ) Sin tu amor ; María Teresa Lara Toledo ( song ) José Padilla Princesita ; José Serrano El Trust de los Tenorios from the zarzuela ; María Grever Te Quiero, Dijiste ; Fermín María Álvarez La Partida ; Joseph M. Lacalle Amapola (" poppy flower "); Agustín Lara Sevilla.

The flower of the Portia Tree played a part in Sri Lanka's independence struggle, when it was sold on Remembrance Day by the Suriya-Mal Movement instead of the poppy to aid indigenous ex-servicemen.

A red opium poppy flower used for ornamental purposes

Scenic highways are marked by the state flower, a California poppy, inside a rectangle ( for state-maintained highways ) or pentagon ( for county highways ).

Afyonkarahisar (, " poppy, opium ", ' kara ' " black ", ' hisar ' " fortress ") is a city in western Turkey, the capital of Afyon Province.

The Chicago-style hot dog, typically a Vienna Beef dog, is loaded with an array of fixings that often includes neon green pickle relish, yellow mustard, pickled sport peppers, tomato wedges, dill pickle spear and topped off with celery salt – all on an S. Rosen's poppy seed bun.

Guatemala is a transit country for cocaine shipments ; minor producer of illicit opium poppy and cannabis for the international drug trade ; active eradication program in 1996 effectively eliminated the cannabis crop ; proximity to Mexico makes Guatemala a major staging area for drugs ( cocaine shipments ).

Kyrgyzstan is a limited illicit cultivator of cannabis and opium poppy, mostly for CIS consumption.

VII, suggests that the ' dudai ' im ' of Genesis 30: 14 is the opium poppy, because the word ' dudai ' im ' may be a reference to a woman's breasts.

Morphine is the most abundant alkaloid found in opium, the dried sap ( latex ) derived from shallowly slicing the unripe seedpods of the opium, or common and / or edible, poppy, Papaver somniferum.

Morphine was the first active principle purified from a plant source and is one of at least 50 alkaloids of several different types present in opium, poppy straw concentrate, and other poppy derivatives.

Morphine meconate is a major form of the alkaloid in the poppy, as is morphine pectinate, nitrate and some others.

Opium ( poppy tears, lachryma papaveris ) is the dried latex obtained from the opium poppy ( Papaver somniferum ).

A common name for males in Afghanistan is " Redey ," which in Pashto means " poppy.

Aloo posto ( a curry with potatoes and poppy seeds ) is immensely popular in East India, especially Bengal.

It is possible that some religious practices, especially the mysteries were transferred from a Cretan priesthood to Eleusis, where Demeter brought the poppy from Crete.

* Morphine is first isolated from the opium poppy by the German pharmacist, Friedrich Sertürner.

California poppy is a perennial plant that grows tall, with alternately branching glaucous blue-green foliage.

Another candidate for the psychoactive drug is an opioid derived from the poppy.

The cult of the goddess Demeter may have brought the poppy from Crete to Eleusis ; it is certain that opium was produced in Crete.

Morphine ascorbate and other salts such as the tannate, citrate, and acetate, phosphate, valerate and others may be present in poppy tea depending on the method of preparation.

By 1100 BCE, opium was cultivated on Cyprus, where surgical-quality knives were used to score the poppy pods, and opium was cultivated, traded, and smoked.

Other methods commonly practised in Europe included severing the tendons at the knees or placing poppy seeds, millet, or sand on the ground at the grave site of a presumed vampire ; this was intended to keep the vampire occupied all night by counting the fallen grains, indicating an association of vampires with arithmomania.

Butterfly tells Suzuki that she wants Pinkerton to see her dressed as she was on the first day " and a red poppy in my hair.

There is a plaque commemorating these US servicemen in Quorn's Memorial Gardens, upon which a poppy wreath is placed each year on Remembrance Sunday.

The text of the poem " In Flanders Fields " is written within and a small red poppy lays on top.

Among the best known summer anemones is A. coronaria, often called the poppy anemone, a tuberous-rooted plant, with parsleylike divided leaves, and large showy poppylike blossoms on stalks of from 15 – 20 cm high ; the flowers are of various colours, but the principal are scarlet, crimson, blue, purple, and white.

There was no memorial poppy on the General's suitcoat-impossible if he had been on the streets on Remembrance Day.

In New Zealand and Australia, soldiers are commemorated on ANZAC day ( April 25 ), although the poppy is still commonly worn around Remembrance Day.

Canada issued special quarters ( 25-cent coins ) with a red poppy on the reverse in 2004, 2008 and 2010.

The arms show a yellow poppy plant ( Papaver radicatum subglobosum ) on a blue background.

Bagels are often topped with seeds baked on the outer crust, with the traditional ones being poppy or sesame seeds.

Image: Anzac poppies. JPG | A white poppy among red poppies placed on the Waitati cenotaph on Anzac Day, 2009

Under Elizabeth May's leadership, the Green Party has begun to receive more mainstream media attention on other party policy not directly related to the environment — for example, supporting labour rights and poppy legalization in Afghanistan.

The only species of Papaveraceae grown as a field crop on a large scale is Papaver somniferum, the opium poppy.

This poppy appears on a number of coins, banknotes, and national flags, including:

A red or white poppy is worn on the lapel ( for remembrance or for peace, respectively ) in the weeks up to the date, and wreaths and flowers laid at memorials to the dead.

He sleeps on an ebony bed in a dimly lit cave, surrounded by poppy flowers.

Research on the corn poppy ( Papaver rhoeas ) has revealed that proteins in the pistil on which the pollen lands, interact with pollen and trigger PCD in incompatible ( i. e., self ) pollen.