NOT KNOWN FACTUAL STATEMENTS ABOUT SAFFRON WIKI

Crocus longiflorus stigmas were useful for saffron in Sicily. Crocus thomasii stigmas had been utilized to flavour dishes all-around Taranto, South Italy. In Syria the stigmas of an unidentified wild species have been collected by Females and youngsters, Sunlight-dried and pressed into little tablets which were being bought during the Bazaars.[85]