Where is saffron crocus most abundant in the wild?

Northern Europe

Middle East

Africa

nowhere

The saffron crocus is a triploid that is incapable of independent sexual reproduction — all propagation is via manual "divide-and-set" of a starter clone. It may have emerged via plant breeding in late Bronze-Age Crete.

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Answers by country

Spain

30%

10%

60%

Pakistan

23%

17%

11%

47%

Australia

16%

33%

41%

Germany

25%

34%

40%

Greece

54%

36%

India

20%

28%

15%

34%

138

Republic of Ireland

25%

33%

the United Kingdom

20%

41%

31%

Poland

26%

37%

28%

5964

the United States

18%

40%

12%

27%

127

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