Remembrance poppy a pin in the lapel or buttonhole. In Scotland, the poppies are curled and have four petals with no leaf. The yearly selling of poppies is a major source of income for the RBL in the UK. The poppy has no fixed price; it is sold for a donation or the price may be suggested by the seller. The black plastic centre of the poppy was marked "Haig Fund" until 1994 but is now marked "Poppy Appeal". A team of about 50 people—most of them disabled former British military personnel—work all year round to make millions of poppies at the
Poppy straw be . However, in 1950 the actual production of morphine from poppy straw was reported to be . As of 1950, the average annual yield per hectare was estimated to be poppy seed and poppy straw (dry capsule chaff), which in turn was estimated to yield about of morphine (in good years). The first commercial process by which opiates are extracted from poppy straw was invented in Hungary by János Kabay. This process, known as the "poppy straw method", remains in use today. Kabay applied his new process initially to fields of opium poppies between the stages of flowering and