Puzzles

[Lesley Cox]

Oh yes, surely the top of a seed pod of Papaver somniferum. What is snuff made from?

[Lvandelft]

So that was too easy then. Yes, Papaver somniferum.

[Anthony Darby]

The farmers round here have just sprayed their potato crops with some fiendish defoliant. Why?

[Maggi Young]

The farmers round here have just sprayed their potato crops with some fiendish defoliant. Why?

 I believe this is done on potatoes grown as seed crops: there is some evidence that defoliation increases the number of "eyes" on the tubers, increasing their quality for use as seed potoatoes.

[ranunculus]

The farmers round here have just sprayed their potato crops with some fiendish defoliant. Why?

 I believe this is done on potatoes grown as seed crops: there is some evidence that defoliation increases the number of "eyes" on the tubers, increasing their quality for use as seed potoatoes.

Hence the song title; 'The blight has a thousand eyes'?   

[David Nicholson]

Cor blimey

[zephirine]

Would you recognize that unexpectedly hairy fellow? 

[Maggi Young]

Would you recognize that unexpectedly hairy fellow? 

Ermmmm.... it's not my husband; he's a hairy fellow but that is not Ian.......

[mark smyth]

This is gonna be sooooooo difficult and I expect the only person to get it will be the bug master

You might have to start with the game Animal, Vegetable, Mineral

[mark smyth]

Lesley, snuff is finely ground tobacco

[Maggi Young]

This is gonna be sooooooo difficult and I expect the only person to get it will be the bug master

You might have to start with the game Animal, Vegetable, Mineral

Animal.

[Maggi Young]

This is gonna be sooooooo difficult and I expect the only person to get it will be the bug master

You might have to start with the game Animal, Vegetable, Mineral

Animal.

Unless they're seedpods, in which case forget my first answer!!

[ArnoldT]

Not yet at full size. 

[Maggi Young]

That's an easy one, Arnold.... it is surely the American Football Tree! 

[ArnoldT]

Looks more like a rugby ball.