Tassie drugs and honey

When driving through the North of Tasmania you drive through an undulating landscape with meadows, grazing sheep, different crop fields - and fields with some white flowers on it. As a biologist it is of course impossible just to pass fields with unknown flowers - you have to stop and have a closer look.

It turned out that those flowers are poppies - and not just some kind of poppies but THE poppy! As I learn later, Tasmania is the world's largest legal producer of raw opiates. One medical use is for example morphine for pain patients.

Another legal Tasmanian drug is this one:

Leatherwood honey from a rainforest plant endemic to Tassie. It has a quite strong, distinctive taste - quite nice actually!