What's the difference among poppy, Yu beauty and grass fruit? If you admit your mistake, you may break the law!

Opium poppy is an illegal plant in our country, but people often confuse opium poppy with Yu Beauty and grass fruit. What is the difference between poppy and them? The same leaves are green, the flowers are colorful, the stem Tingting Yuli, the capsule high above, but the juice extracted from the capsule is completely different, the juice of opium poppy can be processed into opium, morphine, heroin. Therefore, opium poppy has become an important source of drugs in the world, and opium poppy, a beautiful plant, can be called the flower of evil.

1. Opium poppy

Opium poppy can be referred to as nearly 180 species of opium poppy, and it can also refer to opium poppy according to the Flora of China.

Poppy is an annual herb. Stem 30-80 cm tall, branched, with spreading rough hairs. Leaves alternate, pinnately parted, lobes lanceolate or strip-lanceolate, hispid on both sides. Buds ovoid, long pedicellate, pendulous when not open; sepals green, deciduous after blooming; petals 4, purplish red, cultivated opium poppy has multiple flower patterns and colors. Base often with dark purple spots, broadly Obovate or suborbicular, anthers yellow; pistil obovoid, stigma radiate. Flowering and fruiting period is from March to November.

Opium poppy is the main raw material for the production of opium, and its extract is also a source of a variety of sedatives, such as morphine, tibaine, codeine, papaverine and narcodine.

The immature fruit contains milky white serous, which is opium after drying, and the fruit shell contains many kinds of alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, papaverine, etc., which can be processed and used in medicine, which has the effects of reducing lung, astringent intestines, relieving cough, relieving pain and hypnosis, treating chronic cough, long diarrhea, chronic dysentery, prolapse of anus, heart and abdomen muscle and bone pain; seed oil can be used for consumption.

two。 Grass and fruit

The grass and fruit is a perennial herb of the family Zingiberaceae and Cardamom, with tufted stems up to 3 meters high, the whole plant has spicy aroma, leaf blade oblong or oblong, tip acuminate, base attenuate, margin scarious, both sides smooth glabrous, ligule entire, tip obtusely round, spike unbranched, each inflorescence with up to 30 flowers; total pedicel dense scales, scales oblong or long elliptic, bracts lanceolate, tip acuminate. Bracteoles tubular, calyx tube ca. as long as bracteoles, tip obtusely tridentate; Corolla red, lobes oblong, lip elliptic, capsule dense, red when ripe, seeds polygonal, rich fragrance. It blossoms from April to June and bears fruit from September to December.

Distributed in Yunnan, Guangxi, Guizhou and other provinces and regions of China, cultivated or wild under sparse forests, 1100-1800 meters above sea level.

Herbal fruit is one of the bulk varieties of traditional Chinese medicine for both medicine and food, which is used as seasoning and spice, and the whole plant can extract aromatic oil. The fruit is used in medicine, which has the function of dryness and dampness, invigorating the spleen, eliminating phlegm and intercepting malaria. Main treatment of epigastric fullness, nausea vomiting, food accumulation of malaria and other diseases. Many proprietary Chinese medicines are inseparable from its formulations, such as Tougu Soufeng Pill, Yishen Pill, Kaiyu Shugan Pill, wide chest Lige Pill, Jiebai Pill and so on.

3. Yu Meiren

Yu Mei is an annual herb with all extended setae, sparse and glabrous. Stem erect, 25-90 cm tall, branched. Leaf blade outline lanceolate or narrowly ovate, pinnatifid, lobes lanceolate. Flowers solitary on top of stems and branches, buds oblong-Obovate, pendulous; sepals 2, broadly elliptic or broadly Obovate; petals 4, orbicular, transversely broadly elliptic or broadly Obovate, 2.5 × 4.5 cm long, entire, sparsely crenate or apically notched, purplish red, base usually with dark purple spots. Capsule broadly Obovate, 1 × 2.2 cm long, glabrous, with inconspicuous ribs. Seeds numerous, reniform-oblong, ca. 1 mm. The flowering and fruiting period is from March to August. Originated in Europe and commonly cultivated in China, it is an ornamental plant. The flower and the whole plant are used in medicine, containing a variety of alkaloids, which have antitussive, antidiarrheal, analgesic, sedative and other effects; seeds contain more than 40% oil.

4. Main differences

⑴ Poppy and Beauty Yu:

On the whole. Yu Mei has that kind of fluffy bristles on the whole leaf stem, while the leaf stem of poppy has few bristles and is slippery on the whole.

From the height of the plant. The height of the whole plant of Yumeiren is about 30-100cm, and the whole plant is relatively thin. The height of opium poppy is about within the range of 30~150cm, slightly higher than that of Yu Mei, and sturdy as a whole.

From the petals. Yu Mei's petals are mostly 4 pieces, and the colors are different, there are red and purple, but also white, and the edge of the flower is relatively smooth without cracking. Opium poppy has double, the color is mainly red, the edge of the flower will crack.

From the leaves. The leaves of Yu Mei will be split, and the whole leaf surface is narrow. Opium poppy leaves are irregular, and the leaf edges are serrated and undivided.

From the stem. Yu Mei's stem is relatively thin, mainly turquoise, surrounded by fluff, and the tip will be bent. The stem of poppy is slightly thicker than that of Yu beauty, and it is also pink-green, glabrous and smooth.

Judging from the fruit. The fruit of Yu Mei is relatively small, about 1cm long, and has fluff on it, the fruit is drooping, the fruit of poppy is longer, about 4~7cm, the fruit is smooth and upright.

⑵ opium poppy and grass fruit:

There is a radially arranged disc-shaped residual stigma at the top of the opium poppy shell and a short handle at the base.

There is no obvious radial arrangement of the residual stigma at the top of the grass fruit, and the grain of the fruit shell also has significant longitudinal grooves and edges, which is not as smooth as the surface of the poppy shell.

5. Relevant laws

There are the following provisions in the law of our country

⑴ 's cultivation of more than 500 opium poppy plants constitutes the crime of illegal cultivation of original plants of drugs, which is punished in accordance with article 351 of the Criminal Code:

Article 351 whoever illegally cultivates the original plants of opium poppy, marijuana and other narcotic drugs shall be forcibly eradicated. In any of the following circumstances, the offender shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years, criminal detention or public surveillance, and concurrently be sentenced to a fine: planting opium poppy of not less than 500 plants but not more than 3,000 plants or other narcotic drugs with relatively large quantities of original plants; planting after being dealt with by the public security organ; and resisting eradication.

Whoever illegally cultivates more than 3,000 opium poppy plants or a large number of original plants of other narcotic drugs shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years, and concurrently be sentenced to a fine or confiscation of property.

Those who illegally cultivate opium poppy or other original plants of narcotic drugs and automatically eradicate them before harvest may be exempted from punishment. If less than 500 opium poppy plants are cultivated, they shall be punished in accordance with article 71 of the Public Security Administration punishment Law:

Article 71 whoever commits any of the following acts shall be detained for not less than 10 days and not more than 15 days, and may concurrently be fined not more than three thousand yuan; if the circumstances are relatively minor, he shall be detained for not more than five days or fined not more than five hundred yuan: whoever illegally cultivates opium poppy less than 500 plants or other drugs with a small amount of original plants; whoever illegally trades in, transports, carries or holds a small amount of seeds or seedlings of original plants of drugs such as opium poppy Illegally transporting, buying, selling, storing or using a small amount of opium poppy shells.

Those who commit the first act mentioned in the preceding paragraph shall not be punished if they are eradicated by themselves before maturity.

6. Related theory

The idea that poppy shells can enhance flavor doesn't make sense in theory. Because most poppy shells are inherently tasteless, experts say that catering operators use poppy shells in hot pot mainly to make people addictive.

The poppy shell is the shell left after the poppy is dried. Although the content of morphine in the poppy shell is not high, the purity is not high, and the excitement is not as obvious as taking opium, some people are naturally highly sensitive to dependent drugs, and long-term consumption will lead to chronic poisoning and eventually addiction. The opium poppy shell is jujube-shaped, the size of a pigeon egg, with a tip at one end and a 6-14 valve crown at the other. There are often multiple knife marks cut on its shell.

Eating a lot of food containing poppy shells will make people feel light and happy more or less. physiologically, some people may blush slightly, some people may have a faster heartbeat, some people may doze off easily, and some people may not be able to fall asleep.

Therefore, if you find a plant suspected of opium poppy in your life, you must be careful to identify it. Once it is confirmed that it is a poppy, please call the police immediately.

Note: the pictures are all poppies.