Poppy cake
His relative is the Lo-Belar (Papaver somniferum), but compared to him is the Michoneta (Papaver Rhoeas). The poppy is well known; it is also known as “urdemutur” and “urdamutur”. When spring arrives, the earth will blur every year. It also revives the blush of my shame, repeating that I only remember the painter Claude Monet once a year.
When the Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans brought crops across the Mediterranean, the seeds of other plants in the fields mixed together, and, above all, almost invisible like that of poppies. And in the new sections worked, very well. Compared to crops, it flourishes rapidly and produces seed. When their heads are mature and can be harvested, the poppy has scattered the seeds, and not a few: each plant gives between 50,000 and 60,000 seeds. The fact that it is an abundant short cycle plant gives it a capacity for mutation and adaptation. For example, the ability to prevent and combat the influence of the increasingly deadly herbicides used in the fields today.
The Poppy is a vigorous, pioneering plant. It takes land rather than other plants. Earth no, fields have to be said. He likes farmland, he likes moored land. A tumult and a scandal where it will come, very quickly! The place where the plough or plough or pichón has been danced, there will come in rocky, bixi-bixi soil. When you leave the land at peace and start the natural succession of the plants, you will lose all your energy, grab the ears of the other plants and go somewhere else.
The poppy has three well-differentiated areas: cultivation fields, building remains or demolitions and road margins. He has always followed us. Opening roads, overturning of land, construction, waste removal... There he is waiting for him. We're the poppy stick. Even when we produce the tiniest powders. I would bet that when the poppy flushes the lands, it renews and discovers the spilled blood. When we are we there will always be some bad trace of blood, an indication of what we have lived. On the battlefields, especially in the camps of modern wars, the poppy is always multiplied in the lands raised by the bombs.
In our latitude the sweat of most plants moves in the spring, and in this time we will enjoy the great blooms. Flowers are the symbol of beauty: to see, to smell... And to try? Did you eat a flower? I'm sure it does.
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