What is Poppy?
{{Taxobox | name = Papaveraceae | image = Poppy flower, Torcello, Italy.jpg | image_width = 240px | image_caption = ''Papaver rhoeas'' | regnum = [[Plant]]ae | divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]] | classis = [[Magnoliopsida]] | ordo = [[Ranunculales]] | familia = [[Papaveraceae]] | subfamilia = Paperveroideae}} [[File:Poppies in the Sunset on Lake Geneva.jpg|thumb|right|230px|Red poppies]] A '''poppy''' is a [[flowering plant]] in the [[subfamily]] Paperveroideae. The name is used especially for the bright red flowers which are common in this group. They are [[symbolic]], and used to remember the [[Armistice Day]] of [[World War I]], now known as [[Remembrance Day]]. Now it is celebrated in the [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] for those who died in all wars. Some types can be grown and used to make the [[drug]] [[opium]]. [[Ancient Egyptian]] doctors had their patients eat seeds from a poppy to relieve pain. Poppy seeds contain small quantities of both [[morphine]] and [[codeine]].<ref>Meadway C; George S. & Braithwaite R. 1998. Opiate concentration following the ingestion of poppy seed products – evidence for 'the poppy seed defence'. ''Forensic Science International'' '''96''', 29–38.</ref> These are pain-relieving drugs that are still used today. The morphine practically disappears from the seeds twenty days after the flower has opened, so from then on poppy seeds and their oils are not narcotic.<ref>Kryzmanski J. and Jonsson R. 1999. Poppy. In: Robbelon G. ''et al'' eds, ''Oil crops of the world. their breeding and utilization''. McGraw Hill, New York, p. 388-393. {{ISBN|00-705-30815}}</ref> There are a number of showy [[flowers]], typically one per [[Plant stem|stem]], in to the [[Papaveraceae|poppy family]]. They include a number of attractive wildflower species with showy flowers growing singularly or in large groups. Many species are grown in gardens. These include large plants used in a mixed [[herbaceous]] border and small plants that are grown in rock or alpine gardens. The flower c