Detail from 'The Illustrated London News', painting of a poppy flower by Hans Simon Holtzbecker, and detail from WS Sherwill's illustrations, in public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, Yale British ...

Poppy Flowers in Art and Literature. The poppy flower, with its deep associations with sleep, ... like Homer’s “Odyssey,” reference a potion that may have contained opium poppy derivatives, ...

However, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia is a traditional grower of the opium poppy flower that during the […] Skip to content. All Sections. 66°F. Saturday, June 14th 2025 ...

The poppy flower plant produces opium, which is what led the researchers to test the late Bronze Age artifacts for drug residue. Now, their findings are the subject of a new study published in the ...