Medicinal Gallery

Foxgloves, Lupins, Iris, Welsh poppies, Campions, Columbines, Aquilegias and Buttercups

Foxgloves, Lupins, Iris, Welsh poppies, Campions, Columbines, Aquilegias and Buttercups, (Digitalis purpurea, Lupinus x regalis, Iris x germanica, Meconopsis cambrica, Silene dioica, Aquilegia), in Merry Garth Garden, an English cottage garden, in October. Mount Wilson, Blue Mountains region, New South Wales, Australia

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Opium poppies (Papaver somniferum)

Opium poppies (Papaver somniferum), at capsule stage. Grown to provide morphine, codeine, and thebaine for pharmaceutical industry. Tasmania is the only location in the southern hemisphere where narcotic poppies are allowed to be grown. Tasmanian poppies have the highest alkaloid yield. Moriarty, near Devonport, northwest Tasmania, Australia

Merchant holding a large lump of ambergris

Merchant holding a large lump of ambergris a secretion from Sperm whale intestines, used as a fixative in perfumery though now largely replaced by synthetics. Farasan Island, Saudi Arabia

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Catodon, Fixative, Flavoring, Flavouring, Fragrance, Industry, Macrocephalus, Medicinal, Perfume, Physeter, Red, Sea