Most people don’t realize this… 🌸 Saffron doesn’t come from a tree, a seed, or a tropical plant. It comes from a small purple crocus flower. Each bloom makes only three red threads. Harvested by hand. That’s why it takes thousands of flowers to produce a pound of saffron. Here’s what surprises people most: Saffron grows in zones 4–10, doesn’t need constant watering, and hates soggy soil. And once you plant it? It doesn’t vanish. The corms multiply below the soil and come back every single year.

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