Poppy Head - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 41272 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 10.00 PAPAVERACEAE Papaver somniferum | Entry Book Number | 34.1917 | |
| Artefact Name | Poppy Head | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | United Kingdom | TDWG Region | United Kingdom | ||
| Parts Held | Poppy Head | Geography Description | Great Britain, Hants, Fareham | ||
| Uses | Poppy HeadUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Ramsay FM (Mrs) | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Grown at Fareham Hants. Opuscular source: Letter 249,1917:xi.p.167 From FM Ramsay, Cams Hall Fareham, July 10th 1917 Dear Sir, Thank you very much for kindly writing so long a letter and entering so fully into my perplexities as regards my, crop of opium poppy - I now find that 'turning down' breaks the stem! Also I have a letter from the Association saying that in heavy weather the capsules may be picked green - if fully swelled - and dried indoors. So I have 3 or 4 different sets of direc, tions and am really distracted! It seems very extraordinary that the Association should (apparently) not know; a friend who helped me water and weed the plants spoke as you do of the different processes in India. I wonder whether that is impossible here,, the slightest bruise produces an oozing of sticky fluid with a strong smell as of laudanum. For the present I am leaving my capsules alone- some 6000 of them and I have written to the Association. As you are so kindly interested I will ley you know the re, sults when the gathering and ripening is over. Again thanking you very much | ||||