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Saffron Crocus – $1200 – $1500 per pound
Crocus Sativus is the number five flower on our most expensive flowers in the world and also a well known plant for another purpose.
The Saffron Crocus is a species of flowering plant who is used to produce the spice we all know as saffron.
But some will say that this isn’t a pricy flower, or something like that, it’s place in the list of most expensive flowers being given by the fact that it takes around 80,000 flowers to make 500 grams of the spice.
Its selling price of 1500$ per pound reflects the reality and shows how rare is the spice.
The flower is cultivated over 3000 years and the spice as well, but to do that it takes many workers to hand pick and dry the yellow stamen from the flower.
Not to mention the time and skill to cultivate it the purple flower with a deep golden orange stamen.
So when you are in the flower boutique and see the Saffron Crocus buy it for its beauty and remember that this flower is one of a kind because it has special needs and it produces a rare and expensive spice.
Even if the price is similar with a dozen roses it remains number 5 on our list of most expensive flowers because it’s unique stamen produces one of the most expensive foods who cost almost 1500$ per pound.
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