Turkish Red Poppy

Description

90 seeds

( Turkish Red Poppy )

Turkish Red Poppy is an overwintering annual native to Turkey. Traditional usage (TWM): analgesic. The flowers are bright red with a dark basal spot. The plants are multi-headed and the flowers tend to last 3 days before giving way to the medium sized, round pods. This is a longer floral expression than is typical of other somniferums. The flowers are dark red, not pink. This is the poppy that gained fame from “The Wizard of Oz,” beautiful enough to charm a winged monkey, potent enough to put a lion to sleep.

Spread seed on fast-draining soil in fall or very early spring. For best results, plan the planting of poppies so that they germinate and grow during cool, moist weather and flower and make seed during hot, dry weather. It takes some years of experimentation to figure out how to do this in the various temperate zones. Plant prefers full sun and highly nitrogenous, fast-draining soil of neutral pH.

Generally fall-sown in Zones 7 to 9 and spring-sown in colder zones.

Source ~ Strictly Medicinal Seeds

Flowering Time ~ 3 days

Harvested ~ 7/22

Genetics ~ Papaver Somniferum

Family ~ Poppy (Papaveraceae)

Hardiness Zone ~ 3 – 9

Open Pollinated

Organic

Untreated

Non GMO