SPRING BEAUTY...

...or  Clayton Virginia, or even Fairy Spud, but I think Spring Beauty suits it best. You can use it to cure convulsions, prevent conception or  as a potato substitute, hence the name Fairy Spud. 

We were in the woods with the VIP today, then built a pirate ship and later sat around a fire in the garden in the evening.  I explained the tradition of telling stories if you are sitting around a fire, so he told us a sad one, then a happy one to cheer us up.  When it was my turn I got tied in knots with a tale of the first living thing  - a spider - that hatched out before the planet cooled down.  He had to walk about in four  pairs of wellingtons to stop his spider toes burning.  I was glad the phone rang and I didn't have to think up an ending.