Saffron crocus, yellow and purple flowers, scarlet stigma, Crocus sativus (Crocus sativa). Handcolored copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm's Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte (Encyclopedia of Natural History), Vienna, 1816.

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