an orange-yellow flavouring, food colouring, and dye made from the dried stigmas of a crocus
an autumn-flowering crocus with reddish-purple flowers, native to warmer regions of Eurasia. Enormous numbers of flowers are required to produce a small quantity of the large red stigmas used for the spice
a poisonous lilac-flowered autumn crocus of Europe and North Africa, a source of the drug colchicine
a large woodland toadstool with a concave cap, the flesh of which exudes a white or coloured milky fluid when cut
a large woodland toadstool with a concave cap, the flesh of which exudes a white or coloured milky fluid when cut