Poppy's four species, in the case of a second offense, the death penalty was imposed. The fields where opium are illegally grown. Kingdon Ward has published about opium - now called the Land of the Blue Poppy but the flowers are really white or pink. We reached Hung-ai a small village in the center of fertile valley of Jim block country one of the head streams of the Red River. This is the first of the Red River drainage where we met all the way from Yunnan, being Yanshe, her following, close to the watershed of the Red River. The purple lanes in the village