Easily confused with : Flower () [plants with similar names belonging to differing families]

Not to be semantically confused with : Flower () [a plant with similar name]

Easily mistaken for : Flower ()

Easily mis-identified as : Flower ()

Some similarities to : Flower ()

Slight resemblance to : Flower ()

Superficial resemblance to : Flower ()

Lookee-Likees : Flower ()

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No relation to : Flower () [plants with similar names belonging to differing families].

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Both a yellow dye and a red dye called Carthamin (previously called Carthamine) can be obtained from Safflower.

Safflower is also called 'False Saffron' which has been used as a substitute for Saffron in cooking.

Safflower also produces commercially viable quantities of insulin which is harvestable and sometimes grown commercially for this very purpose.

Carthamin Carthamin, formerly known as Carthamine (but it contains no nitrogen aroms and is not an amine). It is a red dye found naturally within Safflower and which is also used as a food colouring under the name of Natural Red 26. It is a near dimer, with two nearly identical halves, the only difference being the -OH on one side of the molecule being replaced by =O on the opposing side (near the centre of the molecule). It is a chalconoid with two Chalcone moieties in it, one on each side. It also contains two glucose molecules - the two rings at the bottom.