Poppy Flower Toxic. Poppy Venus poisonous but not deadly unless you eat a lot. Are red poppies poisonous.
The alkaloids are extremely toxic and can cause convulsions asphyxiation and death. Opium poppy reseeds and may spread easily in southern gardens. The flower has a toxic content called alkaloid that gets processed into making drugs heroine.
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Even Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz was poisoned by poppies. Opium contains a class of naturally occurring alkaloids known as opiates that include morphine codeine thebaine oripavine papaverine and noscapine. The poppy plant belongs to the genus Papaver. Ingestion of any part of the plant can result in sedation or an excited eg euphoric state.