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Tulips in spring
This is the third picture in my current series of garden tulips. This time in full sun, these tulips were standing on a rather steep hill. This provides a lovely contrasting backdrop with the yellow flowers of the ornamental ground-cover on that hill.
Now, that ground-cover is made up of decorative strawberries which are not really visible in this picture. However, I'll describe them a little, because they are interesting. They were cultivated from two species that are not of the same genus (though both from the rose family Rosaceae). Usually, such hybrids will have a mixed set of the chromosomes of the original species and will be infertile. In this case, however, the resulting plants have full sets of both species. In this case, the hybrid has 7 sets of cromosomes: 4 sets from Fragaria × ananassa (the garden strawberry which itsef has 8 sets) and 3 from Comarum palustre (the marsh cinquefoil which has 6). The resulting plant has strawberry-like flowers and fruit, which aren't not comestible, however.
All pictures in this series will be added to my tulip folder If you are interested in some general information about tulips, there's a longer text alongside this picture of a wayside tulip and finally there are some thoughts about this series attached to the first picture in it.
Tulips in spring
This is the third picture in my current series of garden tulips. This time in full sun, these tulips were standing on a rather steep hill. This provides a lovely contrasting backdrop with the yellow flowers of the ornamental ground-cover on that hill.
Now, that ground-cover is made up of decorative strawberries which are not really visible in this picture. However, I'll describe them a little, because they are interesting. They were cultivated from two species that are not of the same genus (though both from the rose family Rosaceae). Usually, such hybrids will have a mixed set of the chromosomes of the original species and will be infertile. In this case, however, the resulting plants have full sets of both species. In this case, the hybrid has 7 sets of cromosomes: 4 sets from Fragaria × ananassa (the garden strawberry which itsef has 8 sets) and 3 from Comarum palustre (the marsh cinquefoil which has 6). The resulting plant has strawberry-like flowers and fruit, which aren't not comestible, however.
All pictures in this series will be added to my tulip folder If you are interested in some general information about tulips, there's a longer text alongside this picture of a wayside tulip and finally there are some thoughts about this series attached to the first picture in it.