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1. Apr 15,  · The saffron plant (Crocus sativus) is a member of the Iridaceae family of flowers, which also includes irises. The saffron crocus is a perennial plant that grows from a bulb and flowers in the fall. What about the culinary spice you know and love? The spice actually comes from the stigma of the saffron flower, which is separated and dried.

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2. Saffron is used for depression and Alzheimer disease. Women use saffron for menstrual cramps and premenstrual syndrome (PMS). Men use it to for early orgasm (premature ejaculation) and infertility.

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3. Saffron is a plant. The dried stigmas (thread-like parts of the flower) are used to make saffron spice. It can take 75, saffron blossoms to produce a single pound of saffron spice. Saffron is largely cultivated and harvested by hand.

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4. Saffron is made from the saffron crocus, a purple flower that blooms in autumn and can grow almost anywhere in the world. But while the plants might be geographically adaptable, they’re very particular: the flowers only bloom for one to three weeks each year and must be hoaclimkainagetvigarepsimapogsa.xyzinfo: Kim Bussing.

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7. What Is Saffron Saffron is harvested from Crocus sativus, a flower better known as the “saffron crocus.” Each bloom from this crocus produces three yellow styles, each of which ends with a crimson-red stigma. The combination of golden style and crimson stigma constitute what we know as a saffron thread.

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8. Saffron (Crocus sativus) is a purple flower. What we use for that distinctive yellow color, sweet-herb smell, and bitter taste is actually the stigma (plural stigmata)—the pollen-germinating part—at the end of the red pistil, the female sex organ of the plant. There are only three stigmata in each saffron flower.

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9. The main saffron-growing countries are India, Iran, Spain, Greece and Italy, although it was once grown in Saffron Walden, Essex, hence the town's name. Availability. All year round. Choose the best. As a rule of thumb, the deeper the colour of the threads, the better the quality. Deep red with orange tips is considered to be the best.

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