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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 ...
Fritillaria imperialis, the crown imperial, imperial fritillary, Kaiser's crown, or Kurdish tulip is a species of flowering plant in the lily family Liliaceae, native to a wide stretch from the Anatolian plateau of Turkey, Iraq and Iran (e.g. Kurdistan [2] [3] [4]) to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Northern India and the Himalayan foothills. [5]
Tulip-tree scales are roughly 1/4-inch-long insects with green or orange-pink bodies. Both pests feed on plant sap in large colonies, and leave a sticky residue called honeydew on the tree’s leaves.
The following is a list of tulip species and cultivars which have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. [1] They are bulbous perennials, originally from sunny, open habitats in Europe and Asia.
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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.
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