From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Discovery Bay is a census-designated place (CDP) in extreme eastern Contra Costa County, California in the United States about 60 miles (97 km) from San Francisco. As of 2010, its population was 13,352, a 48.7 percent gain from 8,981 at the 2000 census.
Papaver somniferum, the opium poppy, is the species of plant from which opium and poppy seeds are derived.. somniferum Laciniatum Group (sometimes called Papaver laciniatum) is a subtype of opium poppy whose flowers are highly double and deeply lobed, to the point of looking like a ruffly pom-pom.
The legality of growing opium poppies (whose seeds are sold under many names, including the breadseed poppy, Papaver paeoniflorum, and, most significantly, Papaver somniferum) is a tangled issue, turning on questions of nomenclature and epistemology that it took me the better part of the summer to sort out.he legality of growing opium poppies (whose seeds are sold under many names, including the breadseed poppy, Papaver paeoniflorum, and, most significantly, Papaver somniferum) is a tangled issue, turning on questions of nomenclature and epistemology that it took me the better part of the summer to sort out.