BOT 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Papaver Somniferum, Hevea Brasiliensis, Papaver

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Botany
• Course: BOT 1200
• Professor: Gale Bozzo

Document Summary

Poppy family contains 28 genera and 250 species. (most are herbaceous plants) They all form a capsule like fruit when it matures. The greek term for something that swells (papaver) Species is a latin expression for sleep inducing . Opium is from the greek opium for poppy juice. The greeks would take the latex from the leaf and mix it with wine= induce sleep. Associated with greek divinities hypnos god of sleep, morpheus god of dreams and. Poppy plants are distributed in the northern hemispheres (southern part of canada) No one knows where papaver somniferm is generated. Papaver somniferum generated from the wild poopy, papaver setigerum?- that we know is native to the canary islands. P. somniferum is an annual plant living for 120 days. (every year it generates a new see) The upper part has no tillers or leaves. Both the tillers have main stem have trichomes for protecting them against insects.