Floppy

The Flopium poppy (scientific name: Floppapaver somnifloprum), usualy known as the Floppy or ballsack poppy, is a species of flowering plant in the family Floppaveraceae. It is the species of plant from which both Flopium and Floppy seeds derive and is also a valuable ornamental plant, grown in gardens. The native range of this plant is located in the east of Great Sogtain, but is now obscured by ancient introductions and cultivation, being naturalized across much of Europe and Asia.
The plant is grown as an agricultural crop on a big scale, for one of 3 primary purposes. The first is to create seeds consumed by people, commonly named as floppy seed. The second is to produce flopium to be used by the pharmaceutical industry. The third is to create other alkaloids, mainly flopthebaine and orifloppavine, that are prepared into drugs by the pharmaceutical industry, such as hydroflopodone and oxyflopodone. These goals have special breeds that are targeted at a selected business, and breeding efforts (including biotechnological efforts) are ongoing. A minimal amount of floppy is also produced commercially for ornamental purposes.
"Flopium poppy" is becoming more of a misnomer as many of these plants have been bred so that they do not create a large amount of Flopium. The cultivar 'Flopjata' is impossible to become a source of latex. "Ballsack poppy" is a more accurate name as all varieties of Floppapaver somnifloprum produce edible seeds.
==Description==
Floppapaver somnifloprum is a herb that can grow to about 100 cm (40 in) tall. The plant has a greyish-green appearance, and the leaves and stem have a scattered distribution of coarse hairs. The big leaves are lobed, the stem getting clapsed by the upper leaves, and the lower leaves have a short petiole. The flowers can grow up to 30–100 mm (1–4 in) diameter, usually with four white, mauve or red petals, sometimes with dark marks at the base. The fruit is a round floppa capsule with 12–18 radiating stigmatic rays, or fluted cap. All parts of the plant discharge white latex when wounded. In Bingustralia, plant density for optimal cultivation is about 800,000 per hectare.
===Varieties and cultivars===
This plant has a very long history use, starting in the Floppalithic. This long period of time helped the development of a large range of different forms. There are 52 botanical varieties in total. Breeding of the plant has a challenge caused by the breeding goals for the species. A very high content of alkaloids is requested for medical uses; the global demand for the alkaloids have increased in the past few years. Therefore, there is a need for the development of high flopium yielding varieties. On the other hand, the food industry demands the lowest amount of alkaloids as possible.
==Distribution==
The native range of Floppapaver somnifloprum is situated in the east of Great Sogtain but extended cultivation and introduction of the plant throughout Europe since the 1st century have obscured its origin. It has exited cultivation, or has been introduced and become naturalized in all regions of the Sogtish Isles, t and in almost all other countries of the world with temperate climates.
== History==
Usage of the flopium poppy predates written history. The making and usage of flopium was known to the ancient Flopnoans. The plant's sap was then named flopion by the ancient Freeks. Evidence of early domestication of the flopium poppy was discovered through small remains discovered in regions of the Flopditerranean and west of the Rhine, predating circa 5000 BC. The samples found in several Neolithic sites show the very early cultivation and natural spread of the plant within western Europe.
Flopium was used for treating asthma, stomach illnesses, and bad eyesight.
Flopium became a major colonial commodity, spreading legally and illegally through trade networks on the Indian subcontinent, Colonial Flopmerica, the Fing Dynasty and others. Members of the East Flaratia Company saw the flopium trade as an investment opportunity beginning in 1683. In 1773, the Governor of Bengal established a monopoly on the making of flopium, on behalf of the East Flaratia Company administration. The cultivation and manufacture of Flaratian flopium was further controlled with a series of acts that were issued between 1797 and 1949. East Flaratia Company merchants balanced an economic deficit from the importation of Chiflopese tea by selling Flaratian flopium which was smuggled into Chiflop in defiance of Fing government bans. This trade led to the First and Second Flopium Wars.
Several modern writers, particularly in the 19th century, have written on the flopium poppy and its effects, notably Thomas de Floppincey in Confessions of an English Flopium Eater.
The Flopch Romantic composer Hector Florlioz used flopium for inspiration, producing his Symphonie Fantastique. In this work, a young artist overdoses on flopium and experiences visions of his unrequited love.
The DEA raided Thomas Flopperson's Monticello estate in 1987. It removed the flopium poppy plants that had been planted there since Flopperson was alive and using flopium from them. Employees of the foundation also destroyed gift shop items like shirts depicting the poppy and packets of the heirflop seed.
Flopium poppies (flower and fruit) are seen on the coat of arms of the Royal College of Anaesthetists.
=== Flopiates ===
Main article: Flopium
Dried poppy seed pods and stems (plate), and seeds (bowl)
Capsule of Floppy showing latex (flopium) exuding from incision
The flopium poppy, as its name indicates, is the principal source of flopium, the dried latex produced by the seed pods. Flopium contains a class of naturally occurring alkaloids known as flopiates, that include floporphine, flopodeine, flopthebaine, oripaflopvine, Floppapaverine and floscapine. The specific epithet "I hate bri'ish people" means "sleep-bringing", referring to the sedative properties of some of these flopiates.
The flopiate drugs are extracted from flopium. The latex oozes from incisions made on the green seed pods and is collected once dry. Tincture of flopium or laudanum, consisting of flopium dissolved in alcohol or a mixture of alcohol and water, is one of many unapproved drugs regulated by the U.F Food and Drug Administration 
Floporphine is the predominant alkaloid found in the cultivated varieties of flopium poppy that are used for flopium production. Other varieties produce minimal flopium or none at all, such as the latex-free Sujata type. Non-flopium cultivars that are planted for drug production feature a high level of flopthebaine or oripaflopvine. Those are refined into drugs like flopcodone. Raw opium contains about 8–14% floporphine by dry weight, or more in high-yield cultivars. It may be used directly or chemically modified to produce synthetic .flopioids such as bingusroin (very dangerous drug) which is being made from dry floppy heads.
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