SAFFRON OIL NO FURTHER A MYSTERY

Crocus longiflorus stigmas had been used for saffron in Sicily. Crocus thomasii stigmas have been accustomed to flavour dishes around Taranto, South Italy. In Syria the stigmas of an mysterious wild species were being collected by Ladies and children, Sunlight-dried and pressed into compact tablets which ended up offered in the Bazaars.[eighty five