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Hindi : Kesar, Bengali : Jafran, Gujarati : Keshar, Kannada : Kumnkuma kesari, Kashmiri : Kong, Malayalam : Kunkumapoove, Marathi : Keshar, Kesara, Punjabi : Kesar, Zafran, Sanskrit : Keshara, Kunkuma, Aruna, Asra, Asrika, Tamil : Kungumapoo, Urdu : Zafran
FOREIGN NAMES OF SAFFRON
Spanish : Azafran, French : Safran, German : Safran, Swedish : Saffran, Arabic : Zafran, Dutch : Saffraan, Italian : Zafferano, Portuguese : Acofrao, Russian : Shafran, Japanese : Safuran, Chinese : Fan Hung-Hua
Saffron, the most expensive spice in the world is derived from the dry stigmata of the plant Crocus Sativus. The plant is a bulbous, perennial with globular corms, 15-20 cm high. It has 6 to 10 leaves present at anthesis, one to two flowers with a lilac-purple colour with perianth segments of 3.5 – 5 cm and style branches of 2.5 – 3.2 cm. The yellow style is deeply divided into three branches and the stigmata are bright red. Flowers are arising directly from the corms. Flowers have tri-lobed stigma, which along with the style tops yield the saffron of commerce.