These include Wollaton Park, the University of Nottingham campus, Thompson’s Wood and the Arboretum. The University of Nottingham campus boasts nearly 9,000 flowering bulbs of the Nottingham crocus.

Fall crocus corms and flowers are small, like those of spring-flowering crocus. ‘Sativus’ is the saffron crocus. ‘Speciosus’ flowers are beautifully veined in violet.

A vivid lilac flower might seem an unlikely symbol for the fight against cancer, but the autumn crocus helped Bradford University scientists develop a revolutionary tumour-blasting 'smart bomb ...

The stack, built in 1945, will have its current condition tested and be reinforced before the sculpture is installed. Flowers made of steel, aluminum, fibreglass and polymers will then be added.

Many animals and plants produce compounds which have anti-cancer properties. Jason Gill has been working with the small yellow crocus flower. An extract has been found that attacks tumors without ...