Difference between wild poppy and opium poppy

1. Differences in plant types

The wild poppy plant is 20 to 50 centimeters tall, has latex, and is covered with coarse hairs.

Poppies are 30 to 80 cm tall, branched, and have spreading, pubescent hairs.

2. Leaf Difference

The leaves of wild poppy are basal, with long petioles. The leaf blades are ovate, oblong or narrowly ovate, with obtuse tips and slightly hard hairs on both sides.

The leaves of poppy are alternate, deeply pinnate-shaped, with lobes that are lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, and have rough hairs on both sides.

3. Flower Difference

The wild poppy flower is solitary and terminal, with four petals that are orange in color, obovate to broadly obovate, and have wavy notches.

Poppy petals have four petals, are purple-red, often with dark purple spots at the base, and are broadly obovate or nearly round.

4. Fruit Difference

The wild poppy produces capsules that are narrowly obovate, covered with hard hairs, brown in color, and have cracks at the top hole.

The capsule of the poppy is spherical or oval, 4 to 7 cm long and 4 to 5 cm in diameter, glabrous, and brown when ripe.