On the lack of leaf: Poppyscotland said on its website: "Apart from being botanically incorrect it would cost £15,000 to make leaves for all poppies - money we feel is better spent on veterans.

The ban on growing opium poppy has devastating consequences for the Afghan rural population. The Taliban have yet to offer alternatives. Calls for international aid are growing louder.This week ...

According to the BBC, poppies don't have leaves in nature which meant neither did the original Royal British Legion's poppy. However, in the 1960s a leaf was introduced for the first time as an ...

On the contrary, Vermont opium is condemned as being merely an extract of poppy leaves and stalks, with a little true opium juice, very variable in composition, and wholly unfit to replace the ...

"Are you coming?" This dog was enjoying the autumn leaves in Wellesbourne Mountford, Warwickshire. We love to feature your photographs showing the beauty of the West Midlands and here are some of ...

Poppies was written by Jane Weir and tells the ... the boy’s hair before walking him to the front door. After the son leaves, the parent goes into his bedroom. The poem ends with the parent ...