Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius) — known as poor man’s saffron: its orange flowers coloured food and cloth long before true saffron. A drought-tolerant annual with oil-rich seeds. The flowers are picked for dye and the seeds for their oil, rich in unsaturated fatty acids.
Botanical name: Carthamus tinctorius
Sowing: direct in the ground
Spacing: 25 cm between plants, 40 cm between rows
Germination: 10–14 days at 15–20 °C
Height: 60–120 cm
Contents: 0.2 g
| Life cycle | Annual |
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