Historians have had a donnish skirmish as to whether saffron ever grew in China (it didn’t), mainly because there’s a 3rd century Chinese reference to Kashmiri saffron – in actual fact it got to China by using Tibet. In China saffron was often called “the crimson flower of Tibet”. In http://kameronjynbp.blog-a-story.com/860533/a-review-of-saffron-medicinal-uses