著者

窪田 正彦 新井 清 頼光 彰子 島岡 真佐子 星野 響 林 一之 伊田 泰康 南 典昭 山本 博文 田中 恵一 高田 三千人 西原 正勝 藤谷 幸治 神田 博史

出版者

公益社団法人日本薬学会

雑誌

藥學雜誌 (ISSN:00316903)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.113, no.11, pp.810-817, 1993-11-25

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The cultivation of Papaver bracteatum, having thebaine as a major alkaloid, needs permission by the law of the narcotic regulation in Japan. Therefore, the flowergrowing of P. bracteatum as garden plants is prohibited by law. Chemical, morphological and cytological analyses of gardening 18 plants of the section Oxytona of the genus Papaver collected in western Hiroshima prefecture were carried out as a preliminary study. On inquiry, thebaine was identified as an only alkaloid from one of the gardening plants. The amounts of thebaine contained in this sample was 0.68%. Petals of this plant are scarlet with black spots at their bases which are surrounded by bracts. These results indicated that one of the investigated plants was identified to be P. bracteatum.