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I took a quick wander around the back of the office shed this afternoon, looking at the weeds and wondering if I should hit them with something horribly poisonous and not terribly environmentally friendly, when I spotted a flash of color waving amongst the dock.

A poppy! It stands about a metre tall, and has petals of a very pale purple colour with dark purple centres. I noticed the calixes of the unopened flowers were covered in a thick wirey hair, unlike the soft down I remember on my grandfather's poppies. One of the flowers had lost its petals leaving behind a fat, teardrop-shaped seed case with a- um- flat cap.

um.

sort of like an opium poppy's

um.

No. Exactly like an opium poppy.

oh dear. I wonder how that got there.

I'll have to ask the police about previous tenents.



James Squire Porter, James Squire Indian Pale, Victoria Bitter, Ventolin, Pulmicort, Tilade

hmm, Opium poppies hey?

Date: 16 Oct 2001 00:15 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ngarewyrd.livejournal.com
seriously, I think that a single plant is nothing to worry about too much, IIRC the plants are legal in Aus, but growing them under cultivation is restricted (ie, broadacre crops).. Mostly because, I believe, it takes thousands of plants to gather any measurable amount of the opiate... I might be wrong, but then, so too would be my teachers back at plant school =8)

Re: My drug of choice.

Date: 16 Oct 2001 01:25 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com
That's a food group, not a drug.

Re: My drug of choice.

Date: 16 Oct 2001 01:27 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mactavish.livejournal.com
You clearly don't use it the same way I do. ;)

LOL

Date: 16 Oct 2001 05:05 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladydaisy.livejournal.com
Hopefully one doesnt interact agaisnt the other batty dear

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