comes from the saffron crocus (Crocus sativus), a fall-blooming crocus with purple flowers. While growing the crocus itself ...

India, Spain, Greece and Iran are the chief producers of saffron, with Iran growing about 90 percent of what's on the market. It provides more income per square foot than traditional late-season ...

When it comes to garden, we always enjoy Martha Stewart's advice. This time she's sharing how to grow a beautiful bloom to ...

Did you know that the world’s most expensive spice comes from a type of crocus? It’s true. Saffron is derived from Crocus ...

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And it can take 40 hours of hard manual labor to produce just 1 kilogram of high-quality saffron. Growing the plants isn't exactly easy either. David Smale: They're actually called corms ...

Experts say that entrepreneurs in different parts of the country are experimenting with growing saffron, and it involves ample capital investment to cultivate the spice in a specially built ...

Lucia buns. Known botanically as a triploid owing to its three sets of chromosomes, the saffron crocus can neither grow wild nor reproduce without human intervention. Instead the plant must be ...

On a dusty saffron farm in Afghanistan western Herat province, Nafisa, a 55-year-old woman, carefully gathers saffron flowers ...

As Tunisia struggles with a years-long drought, two farmers have pioneered the cultivation of saffron, a crop that requires ...

For example Dr Allie is encouraging them to grow almond trees alongside the saffron, which provide shade and lower the soil temperature. But some are taking a more radical approach to saffron ...