Flavors of Morocco: Saffron – Plant Converse

Flavors of Morocco: Saffron – Plant Converse


Inside The New York Botanical Yard

Posted in Exhibitions on January 28 2020, by Matt Newman

Crocus sativus

Saffron been prized by civilizations millennia. Historic Egyptians used saffron to make fragrance, and 4,000--old frescoes all through the Greek islands of Santorini and Crete depict individuals plucking flowers from cultivated saffron fields. Every Crocus sativus produces a three-pronged, golden-colored pistil (the feminine reproductive a part of a flower), which is the availability of the spice. It’s the expensive spice on planet on account of its labor-intensive manufacturing and truly low yield: pound of dried saffron requires bigger than 50,000 crocus flowers.
This is only one of many and spices featured in our new Exhibit Lab, Flavors of Morocco, highlighting this North African cultural crossroads, its culinary traditions, and the vegetation that help them—reflecting the mixture of cultures which intermingled in Morocco all by historic earlier. See it correct proper right here in our Ross Gallery by of March 15.



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Inside The New York Botanical Yard Posted in Exhibitions on January 28 2020, by Matt Newman Crocus sativus Saffron has been prized by civilizations for millennia. Historic Egyptians used saffron to make fragrance, and 4,000-year-old frescoes all through the Greek islands of Santorini and Crete depict individuals plucking flowers from…