Saffron is the most expensive spice in the world with wonderful properties and it is a spice and a medicinal plant. It is cultivated in Iran, Egypt, Spain, Italy, Turkey, Switzerland, Pakistan and the Maghreb.
It is a perennial plant that grows up to 30 cm in height. This plant has purple flowers with six petals.
Saffron flower has three flags and a female leading to the stigma of three red branches. It has a fragrant smell. It is highly valued and also called red gold and comprises the main income of the people living in Khorasan state in Iran.
Saffron is a plant that has onions. This onion has brown shells. This plant grows in western Asia, southern Spain and southern Europe. Propagation of saffron exclusively is common by the underground gland of coriander (corm) or the same onion.
It has a stem and six purple petals and usually 3 strands (there are more than three strands sometimes) of red stigma which is called saffron root. The part used by the saffron plant is its orange flower stigma. Stigma of saffron contains fat, minerals and mucilage.
