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flower
Orange-redmorph
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spinessex
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No relation to : Your Author has not yet got any photos of this plant. Contributors welcome. 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.
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![]() Carthamus (Safflowers) |
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