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Did I find Opium Poppies?

jeans - 7-2-2011 at 11:53 AM

From a distance I thought they were tulips but up close....


And no...I ain't saying where this is other than not Baja.

There was just a small patch.

Woooosh - 7-2-2011 at 11:56 AM

Yup. The Sinaloas are alleged to be growing poppies in the Guadalupe Valley (inland Ensenada) for local opium (heroin) production. allegedly. Poppies are pretty common around all southern California and Baja- when you see them planted in huge fields in nice rows... don't stay around snapping photos for too long.

BajaGringo - 7-2-2011 at 12:01 PM

I have seen some of them growing wild in hills between the beach and town. I think the herds of grazing cows would run over anybody trying to grow them around here for a cash crop...

:lol:

woody with a view - 7-2-2011 at 12:11 PM

the poppy is the california state flower, so if that ain't baja it prolly ain't the opium type, prolly.

DENNIS - 7-2-2011 at 12:11 PM

Guadalupe Valley. How nice. I always figuered the place was a safe zone for cartels. That's where they would disappear into when escaping police after doing their thing in Ensenada.
I in fact know one of the heavy hitters who has had a place out there for years.

DENNIS - 7-2-2011 at 12:13 PM

Do they look like this? :

http://www.sspictures.fsnet.co.uk/images/gcpoppies/opium%20p...

woody with a view - 7-2-2011 at 12:14 PM

:o

bajafam - 7-2-2011 at 12:56 PM

doubt it. looks like the common california poppy to me.

wessongroup - 7-2-2011 at 01:01 PM

A really interesting looking plant and one that has been around in use for a very long while... love them plants.. what a treasure we have in all of them ... food, feed, medicine, tools, musical instruments .. houses and the list goes on... and I think they are...

[Edited on 7-2-2011 by wessongroup]

goldhuntress - 7-2-2011 at 01:05 PM

I think they are too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pEy58n6yEk

DENNIS - 7-2-2011 at 01:08 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by bajafam
doubt it. looks like the common california poppy to me.


Hi Sweetie.......Hey....this might be an opportunity waiting to be developed. The new "BajaNomad Opium Den." Franchises available.

Waddya think?

woody with a view - 7-2-2011 at 01:17 PM

just by the purple center i'd say where's the hooka!:lol::lol::lol::lol::barf:

jeans - 7-2-2011 at 01:18 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by bajafam
doubt it. looks like the common California poppy to me.


Perhaps the size wasn't obvious but the ones here are MUCH larger than the common California poppies that grew in my yard.

California Poppies

jeans - 7-2-2011 at 01:44 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by DENNIS
Do they look like this? :

http://www.sspictures.fsnet.co.uk/images/gcpoppies/opium%20p...


No..like this


and later that day I took this photo:


[Edited on 7-2-2011 by jeans]

wessongroup - 7-3-2011 at 04:58 AM

California poppy = Eschscholzia californica

Opium poppy =Papaver somniferum

P. somniferum has leaves entirely to markedly toothed

lencho, ya got some crop... :lol::lol:

[Edited on 7-3-2011 by wessongroup]

Mexitron - 7-3-2011 at 09:49 AM

According to my botany teacher in college, even CA poppies have the active ingredient...just not as much/concentrated. I believe I read that cattle graze on them in stressful situations (ie-drought).

BooJumMan - 7-3-2011 at 10:12 AM

I've grown poppies for years, (Papaver somniferum), also known as bread-seed poppies. You can buy the seeds at any garden store, and the poppy seeds you buy at the grocery store are the same.

I can't tell from your picture, but those almost look like the poppies you buy at the garden store that are already flowered. They are like dwarf poppies, and I am fairly certain they aren't opium containing. The seed pod is not nearly as big. Also, the opium poppies I grow and often come across have purple flower pedals.

Check out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_poppy

You can see them growing in peoples yards, and on the side of streets. California poppies are completely different.

[Edited on 7-3-2011 by BooJumMan]

Loretana - 7-4-2011 at 03:00 AM

If they are growing in Oaxaca, they are the real deal.
Now take your little curved knife and ....never mind!!!!!!!!!!

bacquito - 7-4-2011 at 07:06 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Woooosh
Yup. The Sinaloas are alleged to be growing poppies in the Guadalupe Valley (inland Ensenada) for local opium (heroin) production. allegedly. Poppies are pretty common around all southern California and Baja- when you see them planted in huge fields in nice rows... don't stay around snapping photos for too long.


Wise advice!!