John,
I would like to know how you managed to have sufficient flowers to be able to 
harvest the saffron?
Mary Ridley, Broughton, Hampshire, England Zone 8

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Jan Jeddeloh wrote:
> Just out of curiousity does anyone know if you can harvest the stigmas of
> C. cartwrightianus and use them in place of saffron?  Just wondering.

I have harvested & used the styles of C. cartwrightianus for culinary
purposes - there's no difference from normal saffron except that they're
shorter in length so you need more of them.

John Grimshaw

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Gloucestershire
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