Title: Only Crocus Sativus provides SAFFRON - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Description: Only Crocus Sativus provides SAFFRON • A delicate highly valued spice, with very interesting medical properties, prescribed in Homeopathy • Saffron provides taste and it a powerful dye • It is a corm planted at 15cm depth, multiplying yearly and produces new corms • Crocus Sativus is a sterile plant, therefore for over 3000 years pure • Crocus Sativus has a reversed vegetation cycle, leaves come out in September and the plant flowers in October, and dries up in May-June next year • Saffron flower is composed 6 (Six) Petal’s ,3 (three) golden Stamens and one red pistil (joined with 3 Stigmas • It is this pistil made up of 3 stigmas which when dried up gives the spice saffron – PowerPoint PPT presentation