The growing of poppy plants has been banned in Afghanistan but little has been done to provide farmers with replacement income.

Opium is a narcotic derived from the seed pod of a poppy plant.

Nothing grows in the salty earth except the hardy poppy plant.

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

They looked back and saw that on their home worlds they had been both muscle and seed, like the pods in a poppy plant.

The plant itself is also valuable for ornamental purposes, and has been known as the "common garden poppy", referencing all the group of poppy plants.

Poppy-seed oil is expressed from the seeds of the poppy plant.

Heroin is a drug made from morphine, a natural substance in the seedpod of the Asian poppy plant.

It offers a history of the poppy plant in Southeast Asia.