“Saffron is the dried threadlike stigma of the violet-colored crocus plant. Its high cost is due to the fact that the crocus only blooms for two weeks each autumn, each bloom has only three stigmas, and it takes about 225,000 stigmas to yield one pound.”

[Little-Known Facts About Well-Known Stuff • David Hoffman • 2006]

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