{
 "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "id": "taif-sa",
 "type": "Origin",
 "version": 1,
 "updated": "2026-09-30",
 "station": 1,
 "confidence": "A",
 "sources": [
  "HV-2",
  "GEO-1",
  "TZ-1"
 ],
 "place": {
  "value": "Taif",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GEO-1",
  "where": "data/1b/harvest.json:57",
  "confidence": "A"
 },
 "region": {
  "value": null,
  "evidence": null,
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": null,
  "note": "no source in the repository names the region beyond the town; harvest.json carries none"
 },
 "country": {
  "value": "Saudi Arabia",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GEO-1",
  "where": "data/1b/harvest.json:58",
  "confidence": "A"
 },
 "coordinates": {
  "lat": 21.26667,
  "lon": 40.41667,
  "precision": "a representative point for the town (Wikidata P625), not a field",
  "ref": "Wikidata Q182640 (Taif) P625",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GEO-1",
  "where": "data/1b/harvest.json:61",
  "confidence": "A"
 },
 "tz": {
  "value": "Asia/Riyadh",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "TZ-1",
  "where": "data/1b/harvest.json:64",
  "confidence": "A",
  "quote": "SA\t+2438+04643\tAsia/Riyadh"
 },
 "harvest_windows": [
  {
   "botanical": "rosa-damascena",
   "months": [
    3,
    4,
    5
   ],
   "months_stated": [
    3
   ],
   "duration_days": [
    35,
    45
   ],
   "daily_window": null,
   "text": "Picking from the end of March for 35–45 days",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "HV-2",
   "where": "data/1b/harvest.json:72",
   "quote": "The rose-picking season in Taif begins at the end of March, and lasts between thirty-five and forty-five days, with farms producing about seventy thousand roses daily.",
   "note": "April and May are derived by arithmetic from the stated start and duration (lane F); the source calls it the Taif rose and does not name the species (see the Botanical record)",
   "confidence": "A"
  }
 ],
 "traditions": {
  "value": null,
  "evidence": null,
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": null,
  "note": "the Taif rose festival is on record only as \"dates change each year; no official source opened\" (harvest.json festival.status)"
 },
 "botanicals": [
  "rosa-damascena"
 ],
 "media": [],
 "links": {
  "globe": "/materials#global-origins",
  "map": "/materials#world-map",
  "harvest_table": "/materials#global-origins"
 },
 "copy": {
  "lede": "Taif, in Saudi Arabia, picks its roses from the end of March, for 35 to 45 days.",
  "body": [
   "The season is Saudipedia’s sentence, a government reference rather than a farm record; the daily picking hours are not on record here. The point on the map is Wikidata’s representative point for the town."
  ]
 }
}