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\n\t\t\t\t01.<\/span> The Plant\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t \t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>[vc_column_text]Saffron Crocus (Crocus Sativus) is a perennial bulbous plant of the Iridaceae family whose flowering is in Autumn\/Fall. Since the saffron flower does not produce viable seeds, it depends on human intervention for its survival and reproduction.<\/p>\n

The flower is coloured from pale purple to dark purple (occasionally white), and consists of three petals and three sepals. The three stamens, bright yellow, are opposite the sepals. The pistil is composed of an elongated style and finished at the level of the flower by three bright red stigmas. Saffron is only made up of these dried stigmas.<\/p>\n

Because the Saffron Crocus (Crocus Sativus) is a hybrid variety, sexual reproduction of the plant is impossible. The multiplication of the species is therefore only by vegetative reproduction or division of the bulb. This means that all the saffron in the world shares the same genetic heritage and would come from a single bulb.<\/p>\n

An inverted plant, the saffron flower blooms in the Fall and develops its foliage after flowering to late Spring and then goes dormant throughout the Summer. This vegetative rest lasts until the end of August.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”55px”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n\n\t\t