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Did I find Opium Poppies?
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.
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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.
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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...
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the poppy is the california state flower, so if that ain't baja it prolly ain't the opium type, prolly.
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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.
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Do they look like this? :
http://www.sspictures.fsnet.co.uk/images/gcpoppies/opium%20p...
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doubt it. looks like the common california poppy to me.
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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]
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I think they are too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pEy58n6yEk
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| 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?
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just by the purple center i'd say where's the hooka!
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| 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
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No..like this
and later that day I took this photo:
[Edited on 7-2-2011 by jeans]
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California poppy = Eschscholzia californica
Opium poppy =Papaver somniferum
P. somniferum has leaves entirely to markedly toothed
lencho, ya got some crop...
[Edited on 7-3-2011 by wessongroup]
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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).
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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]
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If they are growing in Oaxaca, they are the real deal.
Now take your little curved knife and ....never mind!!!!!!!!!!
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| 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!!
bacquito
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