Most people think there are different types of saffron… but there aren’t. There is only ONE saffron — Crocus sativus. What changes is the grade, not the variety. ✨ Grade I (Highest): Pure red stigmas, most flavor color ✨ Grade II: Some yellow style attached ✨ Grade III: More yellow, less potency Same flower. Same plant. Just different parts — and different quality. That’s it. 👀🔥 | Shesrootedhomesaffron

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Only planted these a month ago! Crocus sativus grows quickly after planting and these red stigmas are the saffron, they can be plucked out of the blooms, dried and then used or stored for later. If you’d like to grow your own saffron, you haven’t missed your chance just yet. You can still plant Crocus sativus bulbs now, even though it’s the start of their flowering season (the bulbs will already have some shoots and produce even quicker growth when planted in October or early November!). They’re

Saffron is a fascinating plant - in the crocus genus, it grows from little corms that throw out long green spindly leaves and low blooming flowers that produce three orange-red stigmas. These three stigmas ARE what we know as saffron in a spice jar. Even wilder, there is no known example of Crocus sativus in the wild - it appears to be a mutation from a predecessor that is now entirely propagated through human cultivation! | Epic Gardening