Papaveraceae: vigorous plants growing to 5ft tall, pale pink
with darker patches on their petals, giving a lot of seed from a small space,
this is a rare white-seeded bread-seed breed, which is said to have a superior
flavour. The pods do open when ripe, so if you hang them upside down to dry,
you will lose your seed on the floor.
Hungarian Blue is a European heirloom poppy, bred to produce
high quantities of seed in large closed pods, easy to harvest for bread-seed
and other edible uses.
This is a new improved bread-seed cultivar originating from
Austria. This cultivar is grown for the production cooking oil. In addition to
low-morphine content, this cultivar is said to be completely winter-hardy.
Pepperbox blooms come in, purple, deep red to pale lilac and
pink, these are followed by medium sized round pods.
OUT OF STOCK - MORE AVAILABLE SUMMER 2018
This variety is rare white seeded poppy has an intriguing
story connected with it, in the mountainous area of Slovakia, people were
unable to grow any nut trees to produce oil, and they bred this white-seeded
poppy for the job. But eventually, when they had more trade with the outside
world, they switched to using walnut oil and gave up growing the poppy; well
all but one Crone named Elka living on a hill, this poppy seed was saved and
named after her. It is a beauty that will produce a nice amount of seed for you
to use in the kitchen.
Its pods are smooth and medium sized, being bred for seed
use I would have thought that the pods might not opened to let the seeds
escape, some do, and some don’t, so keep this in mind if you hang them upside
down to dry. The flowers are the palest
pinkish white or lavender white, although violet-flowered plants are a variant
that will appear as a minority; there is great genetic diversity with this
plant. Seeds are pure white through to orange-brown and have a very high oil
content; plants grow to 3-4 feet.
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