Search the collections

Search the collections 76,902 records currently online

or return to home page

Tags

Add your own tags:
Separate multiple tags using a comma

Similar items over time

  • Wheat Sample - Red Federation, 1906
    1901
  • Album - Wax Fruit Models, Miss McMillan, 1904
    1904
  • Photograph - North London Railway Company, Poplar Station Signal Box, London, England, 1906
    1906
  • Negative - Skenes Creek, via Apollo Bay, Victoria, 1910
    1910
  • Negative - Bendigo, Victoria, circa 1910
    1910
  • Negative - Accident at Bochara, Victoria, 1910
    1910
  • Medal - Suffragette Medal (Hunger Strike), Awarded to Myra Eleanor Sadd Brown, Great Britain, 1909
    1912
  • Flow Meter - S. Smith & Son Ltd, 'Trip Tank Consumeter', circa 1914
    1914
  • Lantern Slide - 'Miss Cavell, The Nation's Heroine', circa 1915
    1915

Plant Sample - Opium Poppy capsules, Papaver somniferum, Victoria, circa 1890 Object Reg. No: ST 011931

Papaver Somniferum (Papaveraceae)
Summary:
Sample of Opium Poppy capsules from Victoria, circa 1890.
Description:
Glass jar with opium poppy capsuals
Acquisition Information:
Donation from W. Slater, 1891
Discipline: Technology

More information

Tagged with: opium, drugs, vegetable oils fats waxes, poppy family papaveraceae
Themes this item is part of: Customs House, Immigration Museum Exhibition, 1998-2015, Sustainable Futures Collection
Primary Classification: ECONOMIC BOTANY
Secondary Classification: Oils, Fats & Waxes
Tertiary Classification: (to be classified)
Place Collected: Victoria, Australia, circa 1890

Add your question or comment

  • Museum Victoria does not provide valuations, for more information please visit the valuation infosheet
  • Please note that Museum Victoria staff will not normally respond to comments posted on our website.

Themes

This item is part of the following themes:

Similar items

Recent Comments

I have the same teapot,sugar bowl,jug and three cups,saucers and plates. It was given to me for my seventh birthday present. I will be sixty seven this month.

Norma on Toy Tea Set - Willow Pattern

Tweet

To read the latest tweets from @museumvictoria

Follow us at http://twitter.com/museumvictoria

Join Up & Join In!

Follow Museum Victoria on

MV Links

Cannot be Normanton as that place is situated 40 km inland.

Phil Rickard on Negative - Normanton Harbour, by Hugh Conran, Queensland, circa 1915

MV Membership

MV E-News

Museum Victoria   |   GPO Box 666 Melbourne 3001, Victoria, Australia   |   Bookings & Enquiries 13 11 02
State Government Victoria
Yes No