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This rare but beautifully exotic flower, is rumored by the clan of Ogalaga to have amazing and powerful healing properties.
{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = ''Crocus cartwrightianus''
| image = Crocus cartwrightianus 'Albus'.jpg
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Liliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Asparagales]]
| familia = [[Iridaceae]]
| genus = ''[[Crocus]]''
| species = '''''C. cartwrightianus'''''
| binomial = ''Crocus cartwrightianus''
| binomial_authority = [[William Herbert|Herb.]]
}}

'''''Crocus cartwrightianus''''' is an eastern [[Mediterranean]] autumn-flowering species of [[crocus]], and is of the family [[Iridaceae]] ([[Iris (plant)|iris]]es). ''C. cartwrightianus'' is the wild precursor of the domesticated and now widely cultivated triploid ''C. sativus'' — the [[saffron]] crocus flower.

==References==
*[http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?12251 USDA GRIN]
*[http://www.cababstractsplus.org/google/abstract.asp?AcNo=20043148620 Cab Abstracts]

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Revision as of 21:40, 16 February 2008

This rare but beautifully exotic flower, is rumored by the clan of Ogalaga to have amazing and powerful healing properties.