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Crocus
''Crocus'' (English plural: crocuses or croci) is a genus of flowering plants in the iris family comprising 90 species of perennials growing from corms. Many are cultivated for their flowers appearing in autumn, winter, or spring. Crocuses are native to woodland, scrub, and meadows from sea level to alpine tundra in central and southern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, on the islands of the Aegean, and across Central Asia to Xinjiang Province in western China.〔(Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families )〕〔(Altervista Flora Italiana, genere ''Crocus'' ) includes photos plus European distribution maps〕〔Innes, C. (1985). The World of Iridaceae: 1-407. Holly Gare International Ltd., Ashington〕
==Etymology==
The name of the genus is derived from the Greek κρόκος (''krokos'').〔(κρόκος ), Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus〕 This, in turn, is probably a loan word from a Semitic language, related to Hebrew כרכום ''karkōm'', Aramaic ܟܟܘܪܟܟܡܡܐ ''kurkama'', and Arabic كركم ''kurkum'', which mean "saffron" (''Crocus sativus''), "saffron yellow" or turmeric (see ''Curcuma'').〔OED; Babiniotis dictionary〕 The word ultimately traces back to the Sanskrit ''kunkumam'' (कुङ्कुमं) for "saffron" unless it is itself descended from the Semitic one. The English name is a learned 16th-century adoption from the Latin, but Old English already had ''croh'' "saffron".〔http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=crocus〕
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