Patent No. 602882 Disclosed is a plant of Papaver somniferum having a high codeine trait, wherein codeine is the predominant alkaloid, and having substantially no oripavine or morphine, said plant being obtained by crossing a first P. somniferum parent plant containing thebaine and having substantially no oripavine, morphine or codeine with a second P. somniferum parent plant containing morphine, and producing an F2 generation of plants from the said cross and selecting plants containing high contents of codeine, and substantially no oripavine or morphine, wherein said first P.somniferum parent plant is a plant grown from seed of ATCC PTA 9109.
