FIONA PRIESTLEY AND HER SON EUAN IN A FIELD OF OPIUM POPPIES IN LINCOLNSHIRE WHICH WILL BE HARVESTED FOR MEDICAL PURPOSES.
FIONA PRIESTLEY AND HER SON EUAN IN A FIELD OF OPIUM POPPIES IN LINCOLNSHIRE ON JULY 2ND RECENT SUNNY WEATHER HAS BROUGHT OUT A BUMPER CROP OF THE PLANT WHICH WILL BE HARVESTED FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES. The summer sun has helped to produce a bumper crop of lilac MORPHINE POPPIES in the heart of the British across the Lincolnshire fields, the pretty poppies are providing a striking display of colour thanks to the recent warm more than 6,300 acres on farms across the UK, the crop will be harvested later this year by a pharmaceutical company to produce pain-relieving drugs, such as codeine and has traditionally been imported to the West from Tasmania, Spain and Turkey, but now an increasing number of lilac poppies are grown in the UK to reduce morphine poppy, Papaver somniferum, was first grown commercially on British farms in 2002 and now it can be seen around Dorset, Lincolnshire, Oxfordshire and Hampshire.
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