Gold-bloom

To date, about 25 taraxastanes have been isolated, predominantly from Asteraeeae Representatives inelude (+)-20-Taraxasten-3p-ol (v /-taraxasterol) and (+)-20(30)-taraxasten-3p,16p-diol (amidenediol) from lion s tooth Taraxacum officinale and Arnica montana as well as 20-taraxasten-3p,16p-diol (faradiol) from Arnica mon-tana, Tussilago farfara, Senecio alpinus and gold-bloom Calendula officinalis (all Asteraeeae). 

Common/vernacular names Calendula, gold-bloom, holligold, marigold, Marybud, pot marigold. 

Cooke, D.R., McPhail, D.C., Bloom, M.S., 1996. Epithermal gold mineralization, Acupan, Baguio district, Philippines geology, mineralization, alteration and the thermochemicai environment of ore deposition. Economic Geology, 91, 243-272. 

Bloom, N. 1989. Determination of pictogram levels of methylmercury by aqueous phase ethylation, followed by cryogenic gas chromatography with gold vapour atomic fluorescence detection. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 46 1131-1140. 

Goldberg TE, Gold JM. 1995. Neurocognitive functioning in patients with schizophrenia An overview. Psychopharmacology, the Fourth Generation of Progress. Bloom FE, Kupfer DJ, editors. New York Raven Press Ltd. pp. 1245-1257. 

Kelly C. A., Rudd J. W. M., Golding G., Scott K., HolokaM., Barkay T., and Bloom N. (2001) The use of genetically-engineered bioreporters to study mercury availabiUty at trace concentrations. In Abstr. 6th Int. Conf. on Mercury as a Global Pollutant, Minamata, Japan. 129p. 

The flowers of Crocus sativus are not only pretty, they are valuable. The saffron crocus is cultivated on a large scale because the three gold-colored filannents in each bloom are the source of saffron, a dye and a spice that has been used for thousands of years. The amount is small 75,000 flowers are needed to provide 1 pound of saffron, yet 300 tons of it reach the worldwide market each year. 

Aaronson, S., T. Berner, K. Gold, L. Kushner, N.J. Patni, A. Repak, and D. Rubin Some observations on the green planktonic alga, Botryococcus braunii and its bloom form. J. Plankton Res. 5, 693 (1983). 

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