PAPAVERACEAE - Poppy Family
Annual or perennial herbs with
milky sap
Leaves alternate, basal or cauline,
much divided
Flowers solitary, bisexual, actinomorphic
Fruit a capsule with pores or valves
Placentation parietal
25 genera, 200 species
Economic importance: minor ornamental and opium poppies (narcotic alkaloids),
Sanguinaria root. Morphine
is a component of opium and heroin is a synthetic derivative of morphine.
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