The Beauty of Tulips (with Some Interesting Facts)

Tulips have various colors such as orange, white, red, yellow, pink and deep purple. Hope you enjoy my tulip photos and learn some interesting facts.

I took all the photos in a flower show that held recently. Though there were many different floral species in the exhibition, tulip was indeed the most eye-catching one. The beauty of tulips attracted many viewers and photographers. 

If you couldn’t help admiring its beauty, take a further step to learn more about this flower. Tulip has some interesting facts that are worthy of our knowing.

Interesting Facts of Tulips:

1. Do you know where Holland got the first tulip bulbs? They were from China. Setting up by Carolus Clusius in the late 1500s, the “first tulips” were grown in the famous flower garden in Leiden, Holland. Tulip cultivation in Holland began since then. Nowadays Holland becomes the most famous tulip growing and exporting country.

2. There are over 100 species for tulips.

3. Each tulip has four major parts (from top to bottom): flower part, stem, leaves and bulb.

4. Tulips are grown in the wild, in gardens and pots. They are also popular cut flowers.

5. Tulips bloom from bulbs that have layers because they are made of leaf parts.

6. Tulips belong to the monocot group and this means only a single leaf sprouted from their seeds.

7. Most tulips have a single bloom at the end of each stem.

8. Tulips have few leaves, usually two to six only.

9. Tulips are perennial flowers. They can bloom for many years and flower in spring. When winter approaches, all other parts die, leaving the bulbs alive underground to store food.

10. Holland began its cut flower trade with tulips in 1600s. The cut tulips are sent by air and keep chilled during the transport so that they can arrive fresh.

References:

a) Visual Factfinder: Natural World published by Bardfield Press.

b) Wikipedia.

Author’s note:

Besides tulips, you may want to take a look at some other flowers to enjoy their beauty as well. Welcome to click into the four photo links below to discover other impressive offers found in the Nature.

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