A basket of purple saffron flowers - Fasil Tiru / 500px/Getty Images Growing saffron (Crocus sativus) at home can be a rewarding and cost-effective way to enjoy this luxurious and rather expensive ...

Close-up of a purple Crocus sativus flower - meisam sharifnezhad/Shutterstock Despite their resemblance, most crocus species and lookalikes are inedible or outright ...

In Macedonia, it takes the filaments of 150,000 flowers to make a kilo of the world’s most precious, unadulterated spice ...

There's treasure buried in the deep soil of Sequim - crocus sativus bulbs. They grow the flower that makes the most expensive spice in the world - saffron. Len Horst owns an organic gardening supply ...

While the saying goes “worth its salt”, it really ought to be “worth its saffron”. Costing over $10,000 per pound, saffron is ...

Saffron has been one of the world’s most prized spices for thousands of years, used by ancient empires to dye clothing, scent perfume, and flavor food. Alexander the Great added it to his baths to ...

Kashmir's saffron fields face declining yields due to climate change and land conversion, jeopardizing farmers' livelihoods ...

HERAT, Afghanistan — About a dozen children clambered over a low wall into a field of purple flowers and began plucking buds from their rubbery stems, harvesting the “red gold” that might one day be ...

Growing saffron (Crocus sativus) at home can be a rewarding and cost-effective way to enjoy this luxurious and rather ...