The destruction brought by the Napoleonic wars of the early 19th Century transformed bare land into fields of blood red ... the poppy was one of the only plants to grow on the otherwise barren ...

The red flower ... paper poppies in exchange for donations around Memorial Day and Veterans Day. The poppy symbol is believed to have come from the poem "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae ...

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar’s remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as his only prospect in a country made barren by conflict. The 35-year ...