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        "name": "Crocus sativus",
        "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise Crocus sativus, assess its seasonal and reproductive condition, and decide whether to cultivate, propagate, investigate or harvest it.",
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            "model": {
                "registry_id": "vr.tr.crocus-sativus",
                "name": "Crocus sativus",
                "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise Crocus sativus, assess its seasonal and reproductive condition, and decide whether to cultivate, propagate, investigate or harvest it.",
                "definition": "Crocus sativus L. is a sterile autumnal-flowering triploid geophyte in Iridaceae, known only in cultivation and propagated by corms, whose three elongated crimson stigmas are harvested and dried as the spice saffron.",
                "scope_statement": "This model owns the identity, living organs, condition and action readiness of Crocus sativus under registry entry vr.tr.crocus-sativus in PHY / PHY.OBJ, including individual plants, dormant corms and explicitly bounded cultivation cohorts.",
                "in_scope": [
                    "Species identification and evidence distinguishing saffron crocus from similar plants",
                    "Corm condition, daughter-corm formation and vegetative lineage",
                    "Flowering, foliage growth, senescence and dormancy",
                    "Plant responses to the recorded growing environment",
                    "Symptoms, damage and fitness for planting or propagation",
                    "Flower and stigma harvest readiness, with traceability to the source plant"
                ],
                "out_of_scope": [
                    "Dried saffron authentication, chemical grading, packaging and storage",
                    "Culinary recipes, medicinal preparations and clinical effects",
                    "Independent models of Colchicum and other Crocus species",
                    "Farm infrastructure, irrigation equipment and soil as independent things",
                    "Commodity pricing, trade contracts and production economics"
                ],
                "distinguishing_features": [
                    "Count stamens on an intact flower: three supports Crocus identification, whereas six indicates the Colchicum lookalike; this test alone does not identify C. sativus. [UC saffron identification](https://ucanr.edu/site/uc-master-gardeners-santa-clara-county/saffron)",
                    "Check the combination of six purple-to-lavender tepals and three long style branches with protruding reddish-orange stigmas; record close photographs rather than accepting purple flower colour alone. [NC State plant description](https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/crocus-sativus/common-name/saffron-crocus/)",
                    "Compare observed flowering with the local autumn season to distinguish it from spring-flowering ornamental crocuses; season alone cannot exclude other autumn-flowering species. [UVM cultivation guidance](https://www.uvm.edu/~saffron/pages/factsheets/SaffronplantingSept2021.pdf)",
                    "Check propagation provenance: ordinary C. sativus propagation uses daughter corms because the plant is sterile; material sold as viable saffron seed requires identity investigation. [UVM cultivation guidance](https://www.uvm.edu/~saffron/pages/factsheets/SaffronplantingSept2021.pdf)"
                ],
                "characteristics": [
                    {
                        "name": "Identification status",
                        "kind": "state",
                        "unit_or_values": "unassessed | provisional | confirmed | contradicted",
                        "why_it_matters": "Controls whether species-dependent propagation and harvest decisions have sufficient evidence."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Identification evidence",
                        "kind": "relation",
                        "unit_or_values": "Links to identified flowering specimens, photographs, determinations and supplier records",
                        "why_it_matters": "Connects dormant corms and later harvests to a checkable species determination."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Observed floral characters",
                        "kind": "category",
                        "unit_or_values": "Stamen count, tepal colour, stigma branching and stigma projection; unknown when unobservable",
                        "why_it_matters": "Supports comparison with Colchicum and other crocuses."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Seasonal organ state",
                        "kind": "state",
                        "unit_or_values": "Separate observations of corm dormancy, shoot emergence, flowering, green foliage and senescence",
                        "why_it_matters": "Allows overlapping stages and prevents absence of flowers from being interpreted as death."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Corm dimensions and mass",
                        "kind": "measurement",
                        "unit_or_values": "Diameter and circumference in mm; fresh mass in g; measurement date and method",
                        "why_it_matters": "Supports propagation-stock comparison and locally calibrated flowering expectations."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Corm integrity",
                        "kind": "state",
                        "unit_or_values": "Firmness, tunic damage, lesions, soft tissue, desiccation and bud condition",
                        "why_it_matters": "Informs planting, isolation and further examination."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Vegetative parentage",
                        "kind": "relation",
                        "unit_or_values": "Mother-corm, daughter-corm and source-lot links; unknown parentage permitted",
                        "why_it_matters": "Preserves identity through multiplication and division."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Root-zone conditions",
                        "kind": "measurement",
                        "unit_or_values": "Temperature in °C; moisture with stated method; standing-water duration in hours",
                        "why_it_matters": "Relates observed plant condition to environmental exposure without assuming a universal irrigation schedule."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Planting geometry",
                        "kind": "measurement",
                        "unit_or_values": "Corm depth in cm with reference point; spacing in cm; density in corms/m²",
                        "why_it_matters": "Makes cultivation outcomes comparable across planting arrangements."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Flowering output",
                        "kind": "measurement",
                        "unit_or_values": "Flowers per identified corm, clump or defined cohort per observation period",
                        "why_it_matters": "Separates flowering performance from changes in the number of plants counted."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Harvest disposition",
                        "kind": "state",
                        "unit_or_values": "unassessed | ready | held for investigation | harvested | missed",
                        "why_it_matters": "Records whether a particular flower may enter a traceable stigma harvest."
                    }
                ],
                "affordances": [
                    "Inspect and document flowers to resolve identity before species-dependent use.",
                    "Plant or relocate identified corms using locally supported conditions.",
                    "Monitor seasonal development and adjust cultivation against observed responses.",
                    "Lift, inspect, separate and replant daughter corms when their condition and seasonal stage permit.",
                    "Isolate suspect propagation material and request diagnosis.",
                    "Harvest identified flowers or stigmas and link the detached material to a separate saffron-product record."
                ]
            },
            "sources": [
                {
                    "id": "iso-3632-1",
                    "title": "ISO 3632-1: Spices - Saffron (Crocus sativus L.) - Part 1: Specification",
                    "url": "",
                    "what_it_supports": "Official commodity definition, grading by colouring strength, flavour and aroma, and moisture limits used in trade."
                },
                {
                    "id": "iso-3632-2",
                    "title": "ISO 3632-2: Spices - Saffron (Crocus sativus L.) - Part 2: Test methods",
                    "url": "",
                    "what_it_supports": "Spectrophotometric and related tests that distinguish genuine saffron from substitutes and set Category I-III thresholds."
                },
                {
                    "id": "nemati-2019",
                    "title": "Saffron (Crocus sativus) is an autotriploid that evolved in Attica from wild Crocus cartwrightianus",
                    "url": "",
                    "what_it_supports": "Peer-reviewed evidence that the cultigen is a sterile autotriploid derived from C. cartwrightianus, explaining exclusive vegetative propagation."
                },
                {
                    "id": "powo-kew",
                    "title": "Crocus sativus L.",
                    "url": "",
                    "what_it_supports": "Accepted botanical name, family placement in Iridaceae, and cultigen status in a standard taxonomic checklist (Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)."
                },
                {
                    "id": "linnaeus-1753",
                    "title": "Species Plantarum",
                    "url": "",
                    "what_it_supports": "Original Linnaean publication of the name Crocus sativus L. (1753)."
                }
            ],
            "structure": {
                "bundles": [
                    {
                        "id": "saffron-crocus-identity",
                        "name": "Saffron crocus identity",
                        "description": "Establish whether the observed material belongs to Crocus sativus and what evidence supports that conclusion.",
                        "rationale": "Common names and flower colour do not adequately distinguish saffron crocus from its lookalikes.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "flower-based-determination",
                                "name": "Flower-based determination",
                                "description": "Capture observable reproductive characters and the limits of their diagnostic value.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "diagnostic-character-combination",
                                        "name": "Diagnostic character combination",
                                        "description": "Require a documented combination of floral characters, with uncertainty retained when organs are missing or damaged.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What stamen count, tepal appearance and stigma branching are visible on the same intact flower?",
                                                "kind": "measurement",
                                                "id": "diagnostic-character-combination-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which observed characters exclude Colchicum, and what additional evidence distinguishes other autumn-flowering Crocus species?",
                                                "kind": "boundary",
                                                "id": "diagnostic-character-combination-q02"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "corm-identity-continuity",
                                "name": "Corm identity continuity",
                                "description": "Carry a supported identification into dormant and divided planting material.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "determination-to-corm-link",
                                        "name": "Determination-to-corm link",
                                        "description": "Distinguish a corm linked to an identified flowering plant from one known only by its sales label.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which flowering determination, accession or source record establishes this corm's claimed identity?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "id": "determination-to-corm-link-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Could mixed planting, lifting or repacking have broken the connection between the identification and this corm?",
                                                "kind": "boundary",
                                                "id": "determination-to-corm-link-q02"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "corm-renewal-and-propagation",
                        "name": "Corm renewal and propagation",
                        "description": "Represent the underground organs and lineage needed to manage vegetative multiplication.",
                        "rationale": "Corm renewal makes the distinction between an individual organ, a clump and a continuing lineage operationally important.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "corm-stock-assessment",
                                "name": "Corm stock assessment",
                                "description": "Assess planting material through measured size and observed physical condition.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "plantable-corm-condition",
                                        "name": "Plantable corm condition",
                                        "description": "Record the evidence used to accept, hold or reject a corm for planting without assigning an unsupported universal size threshold.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What are the corm's mass, dimensions, firmness and visible bud condition at inspection?",
                                                "kind": "measurement",
                                                "id": "plantable-corm-condition-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which observed defects or locally validated criteria require holding this corm out of planting stock?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "id": "plantable-corm-condition-q02"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "daughter-corm-continuity",
                                "name": "Daughter-corm continuity",
                                "description": "Track multiplication and the consequences of separating clumps.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "division-and-lineage",
                                        "name": "Division and lineage",
                                        "description": "Maintain parentage and explicit counting boundaries when daughter corms become separate planting units.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Does this record follow one corm, an undivided clump or a lineage across successive corm generations?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "id": "division-and-lineage-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which daughter corms came from which mother corm or, where individual parentage is unknown, which source clump?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "id": "division-and-lineage-q02"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "What observed seasonal and physical conditions support lifting and separating this clump now?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "id": "division-and-lineage-q03"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "seasonal-development",
                        "name": "Seasonal development",
                        "description": "Interpret flowering, foliage and dormancy through dated observations in the actual growing setting.",
                        "rationale": "An agent must distinguish expected seasonal inactivity from failed establishment or declining condition.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "organ-stage-observations",
                                "name": "Organ-stage observations",
                                "description": "Record underground and aboveground stages independently.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "current-seasonal-state",
                                        "name": "Current seasonal state",
                                        "description": "Represent overlapping organ states and the evidence separating dormancy, senescence and damage.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which corm, shoot, flower and leaf stages are observed on this date?",
                                                "kind": "measurement",
                                                "id": "current-seasonal-state-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "What evidence distinguishes normal dormancy or leaf senescence from loss of viability?",
                                                "kind": "boundary",
                                                "id": "current-seasonal-state-q02"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "flowering-performance",
                                "name": "Flowering performance",
                                "description": "Compare flowering with planting history and an explicit denominator.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "flowering-versus-establishment",
                                        "name": "Flowering versus establishment",
                                        "description": "Separate lack of flowers from lack of living plants and identify what a disappointing flowering result actually measures.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How many flowers appeared over what interval, per how many planted corms or established clumps?",
                                                "kind": "measurement",
                                                "id": "flowering-versus-establishment-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "What planting date, corm-size record and previous flowering history accompany this result?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "id": "flowering-versus-establishment-q02"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "What additional observations are needed before nonflowering warrants an intervention?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "id": "flowering-versus-establishment-q03"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "growing-site-fit",
                        "name": "Growing-site fit",
                        "description": "Connect corm placement and seasonal exposures to locally supported cultivation decisions.",
                        "rationale": "Planting depth and density vary by setting, and prolonged standing water can damage corms. [UVM cultivation guidance](https://www.uvm.edu/~saffron/pages/factsheets/SaffronplantingSept2021.pdf)",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "root-zone-exposure",
                                "name": "Root-zone exposure",
                                "description": "Describe moisture and temperature where the corms actually sit.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "water-and-temperature-context",
                                        "name": "Water and temperature context",
                                        "description": "Relate root-zone observations to organ stage and recent irrigation or weather.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What moisture, temperature and standing-water duration were measured at corm depth, and by what method?",
                                                "kind": "measurement",
                                                "id": "water-and-temperature-context-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "What local evidence supports changing watering, drainage or protection at the observed seasonal stage?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "id": "water-and-temperature-context-q02"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "planting-arrangement",
                                "name": "Planting arrangement",
                                "description": "Record the geometry and cultivation setting needed to interpret performance.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "depth-density-and-setting",
                                        "name": "Depth, density and setting",
                                        "description": "Keep planting choices tied to field, container or protected cultivation rather than presenting one recipe as universal.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What are the planting depth, its reference point, spacing and current corm density?",
                                                "kind": "measurement",
                                                "id": "depth-density-and-setting-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which local trial or cultivation record supports this arrangement for the site's climate and intended lifting interval?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "id": "depth-density-and-setting-q02"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "corm-and-foliage-health",
                        "name": "Corm and foliage health",
                        "description": "Detect damage, distinguish symptoms from diagnoses and manage suspect planting material.",
                        "rationale": "Propagation decisions must account for hidden corm defects as well as visible foliage condition.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "symptom-localisation",
                                "name": "Symptom localisation",
                                "description": "Locate and quantify abnormalities in corms, roots, leaves and flowers.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "damage-pattern-and-cause",
                                        "name": "Damage pattern and cause",
                                        "description": "Separate observed lesions, tissue loss or wilting from unconfirmed explanations.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which organs show abnormalities, how extensive are they, and how has their distribution changed?",
                                                "kind": "measurement",
                                                "id": "damage-pattern-and-cause-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "What inspection or diagnostic evidence distinguishes infection, animal damage, handling injury and environmental stress?",
                                                "kind": "boundary",
                                                "id": "damage-pattern-and-cause-q02"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "propagation-health-disposition",
                                "name": "Propagation health disposition",
                                "description": "Use health evidence when deciding whether material can remain in a planting or multiplication lot.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "suspect-stock-handling",
                                        "name": "Suspect stock handling",
                                        "description": "Preserve the relationship between symptoms, source lots and the decision to isolate, investigate or retain material.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which source lot, shared storage or division event connects affected and apparently unaffected corms?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "id": "suspect-stock-handling-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "What evidence justifies isolation, diagnostic sampling, continued observation or removal from propagation stock?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "id": "suspect-stock-handling-q02"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "flower-harvest-and-handoff",
                        "name": "Flower harvest and handoff",
                        "description": "Determine harvest readiness and preserve the boundary between the living plant and detached saffron material.",
                        "rationale": "The harvested spice comes from floral stigmas, making organ identity and the point of detachment essential. [Kew medicinal plant names record](https://mpns.science.kew.org/mpns-portal/plantDetail?plantId=327454)",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "flower-selection",
                                "name": "Flower selection",
                                "description": "Evaluate identified flowers for the intended stigma harvest.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "harvest-readiness-evidence",
                                        "name": "Harvest readiness evidence",
                                        "description": "Tie the harvest decision to species determination, flower condition and relevant exposure records.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is this flower linked to a supported C. sativus identification, and what is its opening and stigma condition?",
                                                "kind": "measurement",
                                                "id": "harvest-readiness-evidence-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Do damage, contamination observations or treatment records require withholding this flower from the intended harvest?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "id": "harvest-readiness-evidence-q02"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "detached-material-boundary",
                                "name": "Detached material boundary",
                                "description": "Transfer harvested organs to product records while retaining their biological origin.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "stigma-lot-origin",
                                        "name": "Stigma lot origin",
                                        "description": "Record what was removed, from where and when, without claiming that plant identity establishes finished-spice quality.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which plants or bounded cohort supplied the harvested flowers or stigmas, and when were they removed?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "id": "stigma-lot-origin-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "At what detachment or pooling event does a separate harvested-material record take ownership?",
                                                "kind": "boundary",
                                                "id": "stigma-lot-origin-q02"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which organ-selection and exposure observations must accompany the material into processing?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "id": "stigma-lot-origin-q03"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment",
                        "name": "Evidence and external alignment",
                        "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.",
                        "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "reported-evidence",
                                "name": "Reported evidence",
                                "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "evidence-kinds",
                                        "name": "Kinds and varieties",
                                        "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.",
                                        "evidence": [
                                            "Iranian Khorasan commercial grades (Negin, Sargol, Pushal, Dasteh/Bunch), which dominate world supply",
                                            "Spanish Coupe and PDO Azafrán de La Mancha",
                                            "Kashmiri Mongra (stigma tips) and Lacha (stigma plus style)",
                                            "Greek PDO Krokos Kozanis",
                                            "Italian PDO saffrons of L'Aquila, San Gimignano and Sardinia",
                                            "Moroccan Taliouine saffron",
                                            "Afghan Herat saffron",
                                            "Ornamental autumn-flowering bulb clones sold in horticulture (same cultigen, not a separate spice race)"
                                        ],
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "evidence-kinds-q01",
                                                "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Crocus sativus this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "id": "evidence-identifiers",
                                        "name": "Identifiers and schemes",
                                        "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.",
                                        "evidence": [
                                            {
                                                "scheme": "Wikidata",
                                                "value_or_pattern": "Q1502807",
                                                "note": "Taxon item for Crocus sativus, distinct from items for the spice commodity."
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "scheme": "NCBI Taxonomy",
                                                "value_or_pattern": "82528",
                                                "note": "Taxon ID for the plant."
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "scheme": "Botanical name (ICN)",
                                                "value_or_pattern": "Crocus sativus L., Sp. Pl. 36 (1753)",
                                                "note": "Accepted scientific name; no widely used botanical varieties in current checklists."
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "scheme": "Harmonized System",
                                                "value_or_pattern": "0910.20",
                                                "note": "HS heading for saffron (the dried stigmas), not for live corms."
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "scheme": "ISO 3632 grade",
                                                "value_or_pattern": "Category I, II or III",
                                                "note": "Trade grade of the dried spice by spectrophotometric colouring strength, flavour and aroma."
                                            }
                                        ],
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01",
                                                "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Crocus sativus this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation",
                                        "name": "Standards and regulation",
                                        "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.",
                                        "evidence": [
                                            "ISO 3632-1 and ISO 3632-2 - International Organization for Standardization: specification and test methods for saffron (Crocus sativus L.).",
                                            "EU protected designations of origin - European Union: Krokos Kozanis (Greece); Azafrán de La Mancha (Spain); Zafferano dell'Aquila, Zafferano di San Gimignano, Zafferano di Sardegna (Italy).",
                                            "National saffron standards - Institute of Standards and Industrial Research of Iran (ISIRI) and equivalent national spice standards in producing countries, typically aligned with ISO 3632.",
                                            "Food-law treatment as a spice/colouring food - national food authorities (e.g. FDA spice listing in the United States; general EU food-hygiene and contaminant rules): not a novel food; subject to moisture, filth, colour-additive and adulteration controls."
                                        ],
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01",
                                                "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Crocus sativus this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "id": "evidence-real-world-use",
                                        "name": "Real-world use",
                                        "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.",
                                        "evidence": [
                                            "Hand-harvest of three stigmas per flower at dawn in autumn, then drying, as the world's most expensive conventional culinary spice and food colour.",
                                            "Colour and flavour in rice, milk sweets, breads, seafood and festive dishes (Iranian, Spanish, Indian, Mediterranean and North African cookery).",
                                            "Traditional medicinal and ritual use of the dried stigmas (Persian, Ayurvedic, Chinese and liturgical contexts), at culinary or modest doses.",
                                            "Sale of corms as autumn-flowering ornamental bulbs in temperate gardens.",
                                            "Trace use of safranal-rich fractions in fragrance and of crocin as a natural colour in food and cosmetics."
                                        ],
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01",
                                                "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Crocus sativus this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "id": "evidence-measurements",
                                        "name": "Typical measurements",
                                        "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.",
                                        "evidence": [
                                            {
                                                "quantity": "Stigmas per flower",
                                                "typical_range": "3",
                                                "unit": "count"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "quantity": "Flowers needed for 1 kg dried saffron",
                                                "typical_range": "about 150000-200000",
                                                "unit": "flowers·kg⁻¹"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "quantity": "Dried stigma yield",
                                                "typical_range": "2-12 (often 5-7 in commercial fields)",
                                                "unit": "kg·ha⁻¹"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "quantity": "Flowering-size corm diameter",
                                                "typical_range": "25-50",
                                                "unit": "mm"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "quantity": "Moisture of dried saffron (ISO limit)",
                                                "typical_range": "≤12 (filaments often 8-12 in trade)",
                                                "unit": "% mass"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "quantity": "Colouring strength (crocin, E1% 1 cm at 440 nm)",
                                                "typical_range": "Category I ≥200; II ≥170; III ≥120",
                                                "unit": "dimensionless absorbance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "quantity": "Flavour strength (picrocrocin, 257 nm)",
                                                "typical_range": "Category I ≥70; II ≥55; III ≥40",
                                                "unit": "dimensionless absorbance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "quantity": "Aroma strength (safranal, 330 nm)",
                                                "typical_range": "20-50",
                                                "unit": "dimensionless absorbance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "quantity": "Somatic chromosome number",
                                                "typical_range": "2n = 3x = 24",
                                                "unit": "count"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "quantity": "Plant height at flowering",
                                                "typical_range": "10-30",
                                                "unit": "cm"
                                            }
                                        ],
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "evidence-measurements-q01",
                                                "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Crocus sativus this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards",
                                        "name": "Failure modes and hazards",
                                        "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.",
                                        "evidence": [
                                            "Adulteration of the spice with safflower florets, turmeric, dyed corn silk, gardenia yellow, synthetic dyes or mixed styles, which ISO 3632 and HPLC crocin profiles are meant to detect.",
                                            "Corm rot and necrosis in store or field (Fusarium, Penicillium, Rhizoctonia and related pathogens), worsened by the crop's clonal uniformity.",
                                            "Rain or dew during the short harvest window staining stigmas with pollen and dropping commercial grade.",
                                            "Overheating or slow moist drying, which drives off safranal or permits mould.",
                                            "Light and oxygen bleaching of crocins in poorly stored spice.",
                                            "High-dose traditional use as a uterine stimulant; culinary amounts are the intended food use, while concentrated doses are treated as a pregnancy hazard in materia medica.",
                                            "Occupational respiratory allergy in processors handling dry stigmas.",
                                            "Crop theft and substitution in the chain, reflecting extreme unit value."
                                        ],
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01",
                                                "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Crocus sativus this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "id": "evidence-regional-variation",
                                        "name": "Regional variation",
                                        "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.",
                                        "evidence": [
                                            "Iran (especially South and Razavi Khorasan) supplies most of the crop and grades by Negin, Sargol, Pushal and Bunch rather than the old Spanish Coupe/Mancha/Río/Sierra ladder.",
                                            "Kashmir distinguishes Mongra (deep-red tips) from Lacha (tips plus yellow style); local names include kesar and zafran.",
                                            "Spain and Greece sell under PDO names (La Mancha; Kozani/Krokos) with stricter origin and processing rules than bulk Iranian lots.",
                                            "Italy recognises three separate PDO zafferano origins with small, high-priced production.",
                                            "Morocco (Taliouine) and Afghanistan (Herat) are smaller but commercially recognised origins.",
                                            "English 'meadow saffron' for Colchicum autumnale remains a naming trap in Europe; Chinese fan hong hua in materia medica is usually imported C. sativus stigmas, not a local crocus crop."
                                        ],
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01",
                                                "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Crocus sativus this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "id": "evidence-neighbours",
                                        "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart",
                                        "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.",
                                        "evidence": [
                                            {
                                                "name": "Crocus cartwrightianus",
                                                "difference": "Wild Aegean progenitor; typically fertile with seed set and shorter stigmas. C. sativus is male-sterile, autotriploid (2n=24) and known only from cultivation."
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "name": "Colchicum autumnale (meadow saffron / autumn crocus)",
                                                "difference": "Colchicaceae, not Iridaceae: six stamens and three styles, no saffron aroma, colchicine-toxic. Do not harvest 'crocus' stigmas from colchicums."
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "name": "Other autumn garden crocuses (e.g. Crocus speciosus)",
                                                "difference": "Branched or differently coloured styles, not the three long red cooking stigmas; grown as ornamentals, not as spice."
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "name": "Carthamus tinctorius (safflower, 'false saffron')",
                                                "difference": "Tubular composite florets, not trifid Iridaceae stigmas; lacks safranal and the ISO 3632 crocin spectrum."
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "name": "Curcuma longa (turmeric) and other yellow colourants",
                                                "difference": "Rhizome powder or gardenia/tartrazine dyes used to fake colour; separated by morphology of whole stigmas and by crocin/picrocrocin/safranal spectrophotometry or HPLC."
                                            }
                                        ],
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01",
                                                "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Crocus sativus this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "openQuestions": [
                "Which validated identification protocol can reliably separate nonflowering C. sativus corms and close autumn-flowering Crocus relatives when flowering provenance is absent?",
                "What corm-size and condition thresholds predict establishment and flowering for the intended climate, stock source and cultivation system?",
                "Which local moisture, temperature, planting-depth and density limits support flowering and daughter-corm production at each seasonal stage?",
                "Which locally relevant causes of corm decline require laboratory diagnosis, and what evidence supports stock exclusion or recovery?",
                "Which flower-stage and exposure criteria should govern harvest acceptance for the intended downstream saffron product?"
            ],
            "statistics": {
                "bundles": 7,
                "layers": 13,
                "findings": 20,
                "questions": 35
            }
        },
        "draft": {
            "generator": "vr.draft.v3",
            "status": "draft-generated",
            "researched": false,
            "archetype": "organism",
            "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.",
            "facetsInferred": true,
            "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.",
            "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a Crocus sativus, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.",
            "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise Crocus sativus, assess its seasonal and reproductive condition, and decide whether to cultivate, propagate, investigate or harvest it.",
            "characteristics": {
                "substance": "living",
                "origin": "natural",
                "agency": "autonomous",
                "mobility": "self-moving"
            },
            "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [
                "observed and measured"
            ],
            "distinguishingFeatures": [
                "Described in 62 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is."
            ],
            "openQuestionsForResearch": [
                "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?",
                "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?",
                "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a Crocus sativus, and on what evidence are they told apart?"
            ],
            "whatItIsMadeOf": "a living thing",
            "physicalCharacter": [
                "Moves under its own power or of its own accord.",
                "Acts on its own behalf.",
                "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing."
            ],
            "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [
                "observe it, measure it, record its state"
            ],
            "howItIsRecognised": [
                "Recognised by diagnostic characters, and those differ by life stage - the young of many kinds are mistaken for other kinds entirely. A sighting is settled by characters, a photograph and a place, not by a name alone."
            ],
            "relatedModels": [],
            "standing": "Described in 62 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.",
            "structure": {
                "bundles": [
                    {
                        "id": "identity-and-classification",
                        "name": "Identity, naming and classification",
                        "description": "How an agent tells one Crocus sativus from another, and a Crocus sativus from things that resemble it.",
                        "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "naming-and-identifiers",
                                "name": "Names and identifiers",
                                "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases",
                                        "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names",
                                        "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a Crocus sativus, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a Crocus sativus, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a Crocus sativus is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "id": "stable-identifiers",
                                        "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys",
                                        "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "stable-identifiers-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a Crocus sativus, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "stable-identifiers-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a Crocus sativus, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "stable-identifiers-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a Crocus sativus is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "classification-and-granularity",
                                "name": "Classification and granularity",
                                "description": "Where a Crocus sativus sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "kind-and-parents",
                                        "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds",
                                        "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "kind-and-parents-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a Crocus sativus, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "kind-and-parents-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a Crocus sativus, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "kind-and-parents-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a Crocus sativus is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "id": "distinguishing-features",
                                        "name": "Distinguishing features",
                                        "description": "What separates a Crocus sativus from the things most often confused with it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Crocus sativus, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a Crocus sativus, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a Crocus sativus is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "form-and-composition",
                        "name": "Form, composition and condition",
                        "description": "What a Crocus sativus is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.",
                        "rationale": "A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "form-and-dimensions",
                                "name": "Form and dimensions",
                                "description": "Shape, size, mass and the ranges these take across examples.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "measurable-dimensions",
                                        "name": "Measurable dimensions and their units",
                                        "description": "The quantities worth recording and the units they are recorded in.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "measurable-dimensions-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a Crocus sativus, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "measurable-dimensions-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a Crocus sativus, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "measurable-dimensions-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a Crocus sativus is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "material-and-composition",
                                "name": "Material and composition",
                                "description": "Anatomy, parts and life stage.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "parts-and-materials",
                                        "name": "Parts and life stages",
                                        "description": "The parts of a Crocus sativus and the stages it passes through.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "parts-and-materials-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Crocus sativus, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "parts-and-materials-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the composition of a Crocus sativus, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "parts-and-materials-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a Crocus sativus is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "condition-and-integrity",
                                "name": "Condition and integrity",
                                "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "condition-assessment",
                                        "name": "Condition, damage and health",
                                        "description": "How the condition of a Crocus sativus is judged and by whom.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "condition-assessment-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Crocus sativus, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "condition-assessment-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the condition of a Crocus sativus, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "condition-assessment-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a Crocus sativus is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "place-and-movement",
                        "name": "Place and movement",
                        "description": "Where a Crocus sativus is, how it got there and where it may go (self-moving).",
                        "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "location-and-placement",
                                "name": "Location and placement",
                                "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "position-and-frame",
                                        "name": "Position, container and reference frame",
                                        "description": "Where a Crocus sativus is, and what that position is measured against.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "position-and-frame-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Crocus sativus, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "position-and-frame-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a Crocus sativus, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "position-and-frame-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a Crocus sativus is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "movement-and-transfer",
                                "name": "Movement and transfer",
                                "description": "How a Crocus sativus moves on its own.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "movement-events",
                                        "name": "Movement events and constraints",
                                        "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "movement-events-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a Crocus sativus, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "movement-events-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a Crocus sativus, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "movement-events-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a Crocus sativus is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "state-and-lifecycle",
                        "name": "State and lifecycle",
                        "description": "The states a Crocus sativus passes through and the events that move it between them.",
                        "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "lifecycle-stages",
                                "name": "Lifecycle stages",
                                "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "stages-and-transitions",
                                        "name": "Stages and transitions",
                                        "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a Crocus sativus between them.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Crocus sativus, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a Crocus sativus, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a Crocus sativus is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "observations-and-status",
                                "name": "Observations and current status",
                                "description": "What is observed about a Crocus sativus, how often and by whom.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "observation-record",
                                        "name": "Observation record",
                                        "description": "How an observation of a Crocus sativus is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "observation-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a Crocus sativus, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "observation-record-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a Crocus sativus, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "observation-record-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a Crocus sativus is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "taxonomic-placement",
                        "name": "Taxonomic placement and identification",
                        "description": "What Crocus sativus is called scientifically, by whose authority, and how a specimen is recognised.",
                        "rationale": "Names change with revisions while the organism does not, so a name without its authority and date cannot be reconciled later.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "accepted-name",
                                "name": "Accepted name and synonymy",
                                "description": "The current binomial, its author and date, and the names it replaced.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "name-and-authority",
                                        "name": "Accepted name, authority and synonyms",
                                        "description": "What to record so a later revision can be applied without losing the old data.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "name-and-authority-q01",
                                                "text": "What is the accepted scientific name of Crocus sativus, with its author and year, and which synonyms does it absorb?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "name-and-authority-q02",
                                                "text": "Which taxonomic authority is being followed, and what would a competing authority say?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "field-identification",
                                "name": "Field identification",
                                "description": "The characters that separate Crocus sativus from what it is confused with.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "diagnostic-characters",
                                        "name": "Diagnostic characters and confusable kinds",
                                        "description": "Features that settle an identification, and those that only suggest it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "diagnostic-characters-q01",
                                                "text": "Which observable characters distinguish Crocus sativus from its closest look-alikes, and at which life stage are they visible?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "diagnostic-characters-q02",
                                                "text": "What evidence is enough to record an identification as confirmed rather than provisional?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "life-cycle-and-condition",
                        "name": "Life stages, condition and behaviour",
                        "description": "What Crocus sativus does over its life and how its state is judged.",
                        "rationale": "Stage and condition change what may be done - handled, treated, harvested, left alone - and both are observations with a time.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "stages-and-reproduction",
                                "name": "Stages and reproduction",
                                "description": "Development from origin to death, including forms that look like different animals.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "life-stages",
                                        "name": "Life stages and their marks",
                                        "description": "The stages worth recording and what tells them apart.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "life-stages-q01",
                                                "text": "What stages does Crocus sativus pass through, and what observable change marks each transition?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "life-stages-q02",
                                                "text": "Which stages are so unlike the adult that they are mistaken for another kind?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "health-and-condition",
                                "name": "Health and condition",
                                "description": "How condition is assessed and by whom.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "condition-assessment",
                                        "name": "Condition assessment",
                                        "description": "Signs of health, injury and stress, and who is competent to judge them.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "condition-assessment-q01",
                                                "text": "How is the condition of Crocus sativus judged, on what scale, and by whom?",
                                                "kind": "measurement"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "condition-assessment-q02",
                                                "text": "What condition obliges an agent to act, and what act is permitted to whom?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "range-and-status",
                        "name": "Habitat, range and conservation status",
                        "description": "Where Crocus sativus lives and how threatened it is.",
                        "rationale": "Range and status govern what is lawful, and both are assessments with an assessor and a year rather than facts of nature.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "habitat-and-range",
                                "name": "Habitat and range",
                                "description": "Native range, introductions and the habitat it needs.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "range-record",
                                        "name": "Range, introductions and habitat",
                                        "description": "What to record about where it is found and how it got there.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "range-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What is the native range of Crocus sativus, where has it been introduced, and what habitat does it require?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "range-record-q02",
                                                "text": "What distinguishes a native record from an introduced or vagrant one?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "protection-status",
                                "name": "Protection and legal status",
                                "description": "Conservation assessments and the rules that follow from them.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "status-and-rules",
                                        "name": "Conservation status and legal consequence",
                                        "description": "The assessment, its date, and what it forbids or requires where.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "status-and-rules-q01",
                                                "text": "What conservation status does Crocus sativus hold, under which assessment and year?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "status-and-rules-q02",
                                                "text": "What does that status forbid or require of an agent, and in which jurisdiction?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "provenance-and-evidence",
                        "name": "Provenance, evidence and time",
                        "description": "Where every claim about a Crocus sativus came from and when it held.",
                        "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "source-and-authority",
                                "name": "Source and authority",
                                "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "claim-provenance",
                                        "name": "Claim provenance and confidence",
                                        "description": "The authority behind each claim about a Crocus sativus and how confident it is.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Crocus sativus, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a Crocus sativus, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a Crocus sativus is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "time-and-versions",
                                "name": "Time, versions and supersession",
                                "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "validity-and-supersession",
                                        "name": "Validity period and supersession",
                                        "description": "How an old claim about a Crocus sativus is retired without being erased.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Crocus sativus, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a Crocus sativus, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a Crocus sativus is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "statistics": {
                "bundles": 8,
                "layers": 17,
                "findings": 19,
                "questions": 51
            }
        }
    }
}