Hello everyone, fellow steemers of the Stand with Ukraine community.
This is my first post in the community, thanks @olesia and @strecoza for organising this red palette contest.
In my entry I want to show you pictures I took during walks in the fields of Ibiza, the city where I live, full of poppies.
Papaver rhoeas, is its scientific name and spring is the time when they bloom, like many other wild flowers.
They are very delicate and deep red in colour, their petals look like tissue paper.
Poppies have various medicinal uses:
They combat insomnia, the most common use of poppies for their sedative properties.
They reduce coughs and colds.
Are used in cases of conjunctivitis to clean the eyes with an infusion of their flowers.
Poppy seeds also have many properties and are used in cooking, especially in baking.
Another well-known variety of poppy is the Papaver somniferum or opium poppy; it is the opium plant.
Some of the photos in this post are several springs old; others are more recent, all of them taken with a Nikon 5300 in Ibiza.
Greetings,
Silvia.