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Autumn crocus
Colchicum autumnale
Naked ladies — a lilac autumn flower without leaves, deadly, and the saffron lookalike this folio exists to name.
Flavor
Do not taste. Bitter colchicine.
In favor
Teaches the saffron lookalike
Against
Fatal at garden doses
Days to harvest
Bloom from a planted corm in autumn — never as a crop
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