We have found painkillers in poppies and willow trees, and eczema treatment in bacteria, anti-cancer medicine in Pacific youths, cholesterol drugs in fungi, asthma medication from the Ephedra plant, and many, many others.
And the old man touched the door with a ring of graved jasper and it opened, and they went down five steps of brass into a garden filled with black poppies and green jars of burnt clay.
Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has reached an all-time high according to a US report, despite the fact that Washington had spent more than 7.5 billion dollars over 13 years trying to eradicate it.
It is able to survive near-freezing temperatures due to dense hair that traps heat and its ability to use conical flowers, like the Arctic poppy, to magnify the sun's rays to warm itself up.
The fern on the slope was splashed with blood, And down in the corn, where the poppies grew, Were redder stains than the poppies knew; And crimson-dyed was the river's flood.
England and Scotland have played a world cup qualifier wearing poppy emblems in defiance of a ban on political gestures by world football's governing body FIFA.
Nobody knew where the evening went to, for Hannah skillfully abstracted the babies at an early hour, nodding like two rosy poppies, and Mr. Laurence went home to rest.