July 2017

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Type:  Perennial Flower Species: 109 Height:   10 – 70 Growing:  Europe, North Africa, Asia Flowers:  Red, Yellow, Pink Kingdom:  Plantae Unranked:  Angiosperms, Monocots Order:  Liliales Family:  Liliaceae Genus:  Tulip Share in:

Tulips and irises share some characteristics. The Liliaceae genus Tulipa contains about one hundred tulip species. They are native to Asia and the eastern Mediterranean region, and thousands of tulip cultivars are popular garden flowers. A tulip plant produces two to three thick, blue-green leaves, clustered at its base. Irises, also in the Liliales order, […]

Tulip flowers can be single or double, and most, called “self-colored,” grow in a huge range of solid colors, from pure white to many shades of yellow, red, brown, and purple. Some, called “broken tulips,” have varicolored flowers caused by a harmless virus carried by aphids. The garden tulip, introduced into Western Europe from Turkey […]