Poppies, everything you need to know to grow Sacred Elements U.S. Customs finds opium pods headed for Dover at Port of Wilmington Opium poppies (Papaver somniferum) growing like weeds on my allotment very excited to forage the seeds. I have sunflowers and pumpkins too so we should get a good seed mix come We do this to survive': Harvesting opium poppies in Myanmar's Shan State Drugs News Al Jazeera