The Veela seem to have the ability to change between two states. In their normal state, they appear to be women, with skin that shines moon-bright and white-gold hair that fans out behind them without wind. They are incredibly beautiful, though inhumanly so, but when they dance, that apparent inhumanity no longer matters.
In Western countries, the average retail price in 1974 was $1,000 per pound, or US$2,200 per kilogram. In February 2013, a retail bottle containing 0.06 ounces could be purchased for $16.26 or the equivalent of $4,336 per pound or as little as about $2,000/pound in larger quantities.oughly 150 flowers together yield 1 g (0.035 oz) of dry saffron threads; to produce 12 g (0.42 oz) of dried saffron (or 72 g (2.5 oz) moist and freshly harvested), 1 kg (2.2 lb) of flowers are needed; 1 lb (0.45 kg) yields 0.2 oz (5.7 g) of dried saffron.
The pretty purple flower plays home to a deep golden orange stamen that is hand-picked and dried â¦ and then sold as saffron; it takes 80,000 flowers to harvest a mere 500 grams of saffron, thus the exorbitant cost. 4. Rotchschild's orchid: $5,000 per plant. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Rotchschild's orchid (Paphiopedilum rothschildianum), commonly known as the Gold of Kinabalu orchid was discovered in 1987, after which is was ravaged by orchid smugglers and became nearly extinct. Notable for its imposing horizontal petals, it has been reintroduced by cultivated seedlings, but it remains elusive.