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Taken in our garden earlier this summer.
The tulip is a perennial, bulbous plant with showy flowers in the genus Tulipa, of which around 75 wild species are currently accepted and which belongs to the family Liliaceae.
The genus's native range extends west to the Iberian Peninsula, through North Africa to Greece, the Balkans, Turkey, throughout the Levant (Syria, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan) and Iran, North to Ukraine, southern Siberia and Mongolia, and east to the Northwest of China. The tulip's centre of diversity is in the Pamir, Hindu Kush, and Tien Shan mountains. It is a typical element of steppe and winter-rain Mediterranean vegetation. A number of species and many hybrid cultivars are grown in gardens, as potted plants, or as cut flowers.
Tulips are spring-blooming perennials that grow from bulbs. Depending on the species, tulip plants can be between 4 inches (10 cm) and 28 inches (71 cm) high. The tulip's large flowers usually bloom on scapes with leaves in a rosette at ground level and a single flowering stalk arising from amongst the leaves.Tulip stems have few leaves. Larger species tend to have multiple leaves. Plants typically have two to six leaves, some species up to 12. The tulip's leaf is strap-shaped, with a waxy coating, and the leaves are alternately arranged on the stem; these fleshy blades are often bluish green in color. Most tulips produce only one flower per stem, but a few species bear multiple flowers on their scapes (e.g. Tulipa turkestanica). The generally cup or star-shaped tulip flower has three petals and three sepals, which are often termed tepals because they are nearly identical. These six tepals are often marked on the interior surface near the bases with darker colorings. Tulip flowers come in a wide variety of colors, except pure blue (several tulips with "blue" in the name have a faint violet hue).
The flowers have six distinct, basifixed stamens with filaments shorter than the tepals. Each stigma has three distinct lobes, and the ovaries are superior, with three chambers. The tulip's seed is a capsule with a leathery covering and an ellipsoid to globe shape. Each capsule contains numerous flat, disc-shaped seeds in two rows per chamber. These light to dark brown seeds have very thin seed coats and endosperm that does not normally fill the entire seed.
Etymology
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 ("muslin" or "gauze"), and may be ultimately derived from the Persian: دلبند delband ("Turban"), this name being applied because of a perceived resemblance of the shape of a tulip flower to that of a turban. This may have been due to a translation error in early times, when it was fashionable in the Ottoman Empire to wear tulips on turbans. The translator possibly confused the flower for the turban.
Tulips are called laleh (from Persian لاله, lâleh) in Persian, Turkish, Arabic, and Bulgarian. In Arabic letters, "laleh" is written with the same letters as Allah, which is why the flower became a holy symbol. It was also associated with the House of Osman, resulting in tulips being widely used in decorative motifs on tiles, mosques, fabrics, crockery, etc. in the Ottoman Empire
Cultivation
Tulip cultivars have usually several species in their direct background, but most have been derived from Tulipa suaveolens, often erroneously listed as Tulipa schrenkii. Tulipa gesneriana is in itself an early hybrid of complex origin and is probably not the same taxon as was described by Conrad Gesner in the 16th century.
Tulips are indigenous to mountainous areas with temperate climates and need a period of cool dormancy, known as vernalization. They thrive in climates with long, cool springs and dry summers. Tulip bulbs imported to warm-winter areas of are often planted in autumn to be treated as annuals.
Tulip bulbs are typically planted around late summer and fall, in well-drained soils, normally from 4 to 8 inches (10 to 20 cm) deep, depending on the type. Species tulips are normally planted deeper.
Propagation
Tulips can be propagated through bulb offsets, seeds or micropropagation. Offsets and tissue culture methods are means of asexual propagation for producing genetic clones of the parent plant, which maintains cultivar genetic integrity. Seeds are most often used to propagate species and subspecies or to create new hybrids. Many tulip species can cross-pollinate with each other, and when wild tulip populations overlap geographically with other tulip species or subspecies, they often hybridize and create mixed populations. Most commercial tulip cultivars are complex hybrids, and often sterile.
Offsets require a year or more of growth before plants are large enough to flower. Tulips grown from seeds often need five to eight years before plants are of flowering size. Commercial growers usually harvest the tulip bulbs in late summer and grade them into sizes; bulbs large enough to flower are sorted and sold, while smaller bulbs are sorted into sizes and replanted for sale in the future. The Netherlands are the world's main producer of commercial tulip plants, producing as many as 3 billion bulbs annually, the majority for export.
For further information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip
After the heavy rain storm, the clouds opened up for a few minutes to show this light shining through. It often happens at the end of the day that a tiny bit of sunlight is visible.
Location: Lougheed area of Burnaby, BC
Opening faceoff during the Blackhawks game last Thursday, which unfortunately they lost 4-3. It has been quite the struggle for the Hawks recently, which recently led to the firing of 10 year head coach Joel Quenneville.
heading up Steptoe Butte at some unholy hour of the morning, to catch the sunrise over the fields of the Palouse (see Agri-Tapestry 2 if you're wondering whether it was worth it)
Opening Up
“Take a breath, when you need to be reminded
That days like these, we can only do the best we can
And do it all again
It's the heartbeat, the center, the lifeline, you enter
Opening up, letting the day in…”
Opening Up ~ Sara Bareilles
The petals of a hibiscus flower slowly unfurl, in anticipation for its first pollinators. Lambeau, Trinidad & Tobago W.I.
yes i like opening them....
i got the Nikon speedlight SB600 from Giz, he's the best!!!
hope you have/had fun with your gifts
I've been a bit neglectful on here of late but will try to catch up soon.
Mann Island, Liverpool, UK.
My Buildings set.
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Emerging rhubarb has a brain-like appearance! Rhubarb is the plant name for the over 70 species of Rheum. It originated in Asia, in particular China and Tibet, with the earliest records going back to 2700 BC.
Seren took this lovely film at my exhibition opening at The Kondor Art Gallery. Thank you so much, Seren.
Opening doors to freedom and shining your light on the world 🌎 🌍
I came upon this open door after a visit with my barber yesterday . Something caught the corner of my eye. I stepped back a few steps and saw the Statue of Liberty framed between two old walls. All of a sudden a thought, or maybe a sense of calm washed over me. I thought, maybe, just maybe, Lady Liberty will prevail.
Found on mandarake. Somehow I was on the fence at times, not feeling satisfied, that my sakura didn’t look or sometimes feel like sakura should. This outfit here makes her feel and look like sakura to me now. Really happy I bought it
I’ll have to take better photos of this outfit in the future soon