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🌺YOUR ULTIMATE GUIDE TO SAFFRON🌺 1) BACKGROUND & HISTORY Saffron famously comes in “threads,” which are actually the stamen of a flower — *crocus sativus.* Each vibrant purple flower blooms one week out of the year and produces just three stamens, which are still picked by hand in large saffron fields. Saffron is native to Iran and has been cultivated for thousands of years. Saffron-based pigments have been found in 50,000-year-old depictions of prehistoric places in northwest Iran (1,2)*. 2)