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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

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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)

That's a food group, not a drug.

You clearly don't use it the same way I do. ;)

Hopefully one doesnt interact agaisnt the other batty dear

Hubbo lubbub weeeed

hmm, Opium poppies hey?

My drug of choice.

Re: My drug of choice.

Re: My drug of choice.

LOL