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scientist, educator, botanist, quidditch alum, diversity and equity coordinator for USQ, rebel scum originally from Texas (she/they)
Jul 10, 2020 ā€¢ 28 tweets ā€¢ 11 min read
Happy Friday! It's #PlantAppreciation day for #BlackBotanistsWeek and I want to shout out the plants I use every dayā€“ā€“spices! I'm going to try and identify them all on this thread from left to right. Image Saffron comes from the plant Crocus sativus. The stigma/styles are what create the spice after being dried. Itā€™s the most expensive spice in the world due to how labor intensive it is to harvest as it is hand-picked. It takes about 80 hours to pick about 2lbs (.9kg) of saffron.