SC - My first time..

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

>> Bang on.  As a cute little side note, apparently the seeds are used to
make
>> a gout remedy known as colchicine.


I hate to be pedantic, but this is incorrect. Colchicine is "a yellow,
crystalline alkaloid extracted from the seeds and corm of *Colchicum
autumnale*."  This plant is meadow saffron, also known as Autumn Crocus (if
I recall correctly). The uninformed often confuse colchicum with saffron
crocus, but you certainly don't want to be using its stigmas as saffron,
since they are to a degree poisonous. If you are thinking of planting
saffron crocus (the bulbs are not that hard to find, at least in Canada -- I
get them at the local garden centre), make sure you specify saffron crocus
and confirm with the botanical name, *crocus sativus*.

Francesco Sirene

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