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Tulip bulbs imported to warm-winter areas are often planted in autumn to be treated as annuals. The colour of tulip flowers also varies with growing conditions. [28] In the American East, white-tailed deer eat tulips, [29] with no apparent ill effects. However, tulips are poisonous to domestic animals e.g. horses, cats, and dogs. [14]
Tulipa gesneriana, the Didier's tulip [2] or garden tulip, is a species of plant in the lily family, cultivated as an ornamental in many countries because of its large, showy flowers. This tall, late-blooming species has a single blooming flower and linear or broadly lanceolate leaves.
Tulipa hungarica, the Danube tulip, Banat tulip or Rhodope tulip, is a species of flowering plant in the family Liliaceae. It is also in the subgenus Tulipa. It is found on the rocky mountainsides of Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Slovenia, especially along the gorges of the river Danube. It has small bright yellow flowers in spring and blue ...
The tulip tree is a plot element in Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Gold-Bug" (1843). [43] Walt Whitman observed in 1876-77 a 70 foot tall tulip tree and how "from top to bottom, seeking the sweet juice in the blossoms, it swarms with myriads of these wild bees, whose loud and steady humming makes an undertone to the whole." He referred to ...
The Latin specific epithet kaufmanniana refers to Konstantin von Kaufman (1818–1882) who was the first Governor-General of Russian Turkestan where the tulip was found. It was first found in Turkestan, [ 9 ] [ 10 ] and then published and described by Eduard August von Regel in his botanical magazine ' Gartenflora ' Vol.26 on page 194 in 1877.
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Τypographic ornament in ancient city of Kamiros in Rhodes island, Greece. Flower decorations are among the oldest typographic ornaments. A fleuron can also be used to fill the white space that results from the indentation of the first line of a paragraph, [4] on a line by itself to divide paragraphs in a highly stylized way, to divide lists, or for pure ornamentation. [5]
Tulipa agenensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Liliaceae. [1] It is native to Turkey, Iran, Cyprus, the Aegean Islands, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan, and is naturalized in the central and western Mediterranean (Italy, Tunisia, France, Portugal, Moldova, etc.).