Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.7 9/23/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!nsc!chuqui 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 Article-I.D.: nsc.3087 Posted: Tue Aug 6 12:32:03 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Aug-85 04:37:00 EDT References: <216@utflis.UUCP> <3345@drutx.UUCP> <969@mtgzz.UUCP> <575@rtech.UUCP> <1588@watdcsu.UUCP> Reply-To: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Laurie Sefton, C/O chuqui) Organization: The Warlocks Cave Lines: 21 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 -- :From the carousel of the autumn carnival: Chuq Von Rospach {cbosgd,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!chuqui nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA Your fifteen minutes are up. Please step aside!