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The word tulip, first mentioned in western Europe in or around 1554 and seemingly derived from the "Turkish Letters" of diplomat Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, first appeared in English as tulipa or tulipant, entering the language by way of French: tulipe and its obsolete form tulipan or by way of Modern Latin tulīpa, from Ottoman Turkish tülbend ...
Illustration from Floral Poetry and the Language of Flowers (1877). According to Jayne Alcock, grounds and gardens supervisor at the Walled Gardens of Cannington, the renewed Victorian era interest in the language of flowers finds its roots in Ottoman Turkey, specifically the court in Constantinople [1] and an obsession it held with tulips during the first half of the 18th century.
Tulipa alberti in Kazakhstan. Tulips are spring-blooming perennial herbaceous bulbiferous geophytes in the Tulipa genus.Their flowers are usually large, showy, and brightly coloured, generally red, orange, pink, yellow, or white.
A red tulip from Kashmir is a better-known painting. The identity of the tulip is however debated with competing suggestions that include Tulipa lanata, T. montana and T. lehmanniana. [6] In 1621, Jehangir was gifted a zebra and this was perhaps the subject of the last miniature painting made by Mansur.
Botanical illustration is the art of depicting the form, color, and details of plant species. They are generally meant to be scientifically descriptive about subjects ...
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It is a low-growing tulip species, [5] and has 25–45 cm (10–18 in) tall stems. [4] It has 3 to 7 grey-green leaves that are downy and fringed with hairs (ciliate). [4] [5] It can have one flower (normally in the wild [4]) or it can produce multiple flowers per bulb, [6] meaning it can have a pair of flowers or up to a maximum of five flowers per bulb. [4]
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