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  2. Sideroxylon celastrinum - Wikipedia

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    Common names include saffron plum [5] and coma. [6] [7] It is a spiny shrub or small tree that reaches a height of 2–9 m (6.6–29.5 ft). The dark green leaves are alternate or fascicled at the nodes and oblanceolate to obovate. Greenish-white flowers are present from May to November and are followed by single-seeded, blue-black drupes. [8]

  3. Colchicum stevenii - Wikipedia

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    Colchicum stevenii, or Steven's meadow saffron, is a species of flowering plant in the family Colchicaceae. Hebrew: סתוונית היורה, Arabic: سَراجُ الغولة, سُورَنْجان Hebrew: סתוונית היורה, Arabic: سَراجُ الغولة, سُورَنْجان

  4. Colchicum bulbocodium - Wikipedia

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    Colchicum bulbocodium, the spring meadow saffron, is a species of alpine bulbous plant native to mountain ranges across Europe from the Pyrenees to the Caucasus (Spain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Romania, the former Yugoslavia, Ukraine and southern European Russia). [1] [2] It is cultivated as an ornamental plant in many places.

  5. Colchicum autumnale - Wikipedia

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    Colchicum autumnale, commonly known as autumn crocus, meadow saffron, [3] naked boys [4] or naked ladies, [5] is a toxic autumn-blooming flowering plant that resembles the true crocuses, but is a member of the plant family Colchicaceae, unlike the true crocuses, which belong to the family Iridaceae.

  6. Container garden - Wikipedia

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    Container gardening or pot gardening/farming is the practice of growing plants, including edible plants, exclusively in containers instead of planting them in the ground. [1] A container in gardening is a small, enclosed and usually portable object used for displaying live flowers or plants.

  7. Crocus sativus - Wikipedia

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    Crocus sativus, commonly known as saffron crocus or autumn crocus, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the iris family Iridaceae. A cormous autumn-flowering cultivated perennial , unknown in the wild, [ 2 ] it is best known for the culinary use of its floral stigmas as the spice saffron .

  8. Saffron - Wikipedia

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    One freshly picked crocus flower yields on average 30 mg of fresh saffron or 7 mg dried; roughly 150 flowers yield 1 g (1 ⁄ 32 oz) of dry saffron threads; to produce 12 g (7 ⁄ 16 oz) of dried saffron, 450 g (1 lb) of flowers are needed; the yield of dried spice from fresh saffron is only 13 g/kg (0.2 oz/lb).

  9. Ornamental bulbous plant - Wikipedia

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    The plant is depicted in paintings from around 1550 BC. [22] Saffron consists of the dried stigmas of the flowers, and is used as a spice and also as a dye. [14] Some bulbous plants were used in medicine in classical times; one example is the sea squill (Drimia maritima) which grows from a true bulb. [22]