opium poppy
Archaic term for the opium poppy; in modern Japanese, ケシ or 芥子 is used instead.
阿芙蓉 is an old term that once referred to the opium poppy in Japan.
The term 阿芙蓉 is of Chinese origin, historically used to refer to the opium poppy. The exact derivation is uncertain; it is an archaic loanword no longer in common use.