Serious Eats: Spice Hunting - What's the Deal With Saffron? Saffron bright reddish orange with uniform color and length laborious harvesting practices musky much of the country’s—and the world’s—saffron is grown. 150 flowers $2,000 – 10,000 CDN per pound SeriousEats between $2,000 to $10,000 origin is a vivid red flower