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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Laurie Sefton, C/O chuqui)
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: Re: Saffron
Message-ID: <3087@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 6-Aug-85 12:32:03 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug  6 12:32:03 1985
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Reply-To: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Laurie Sefton, C/O chuqui)
Organization: The Warlocks Cave
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Keywords: Colchicine, poison
Summary: Before we start digging up grandmum's bulb garden




Before we decide to raid the garden for saffron--

Colchicine, a drug once used to treat gout, and currently used to stop
mitotic division in cells, is found in the seeds and corms of the meadow
saffron (crocus).  Colchicine is deadly poisonous in *very* small doses.

So, please, if your deciding to pluck flowers, stamens, or tubers
(day-lilies are supposed to be good eating), know which plants are
poisonous, and what parts.


Laurie Sefton

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