Opium poppies (Papaver somniferum), at capsule stage. Grown to provide morphine, codeine, and thebaine for pharmaceutical industry. Tasmania is the on

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Opium poppies (Papaver somniferum), at capsule stage. Grown to provide morphine, codeine, and thebaine for pharmaceutical industry. Tasmania is the only location in the southern hemisphere where narcotic poppies are allowed to be grown. Tasmanian poppies have the highest alkaloid yield. Moriarty, near Devonport, northwest Tasmania, Australia

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