View allAll Photos Tagged TULIP
A Turkish legend may be responsible for the red tulip's symbolism. The story goes that a prince named Farhad was love struck by a maiden named Shirin. When Farhad learned that Shirin had been killed, he was so overcome with grief that he killed himself - riding his horse over the edge of a cliff. It's said that a scarlet tulip sprang up from each droplet of his blood, giving the red tulip the meaning "perfect love."
The tulip is a perennial, bulbous plant with showy flowers in the genus Tulipa, which comprises 109 species and belongs to the family Liliaceae. The genus's native range extends from as far west as Southern Europe, North Africa, Anatolia, and Iran to the Northwest of China. The tulip's centre of diversity is in the Pamir, Hindu Kush, and Tien Shan mountains. A number of species and many hybrid cultivars are grown in gardens, as potted plants, or to display as fresh-cut flowers. Most cultivars of tulip are derived from Tulipa gesneriana.
Although tulips are often associated with the Netherlands, commercial cultivation of the flower began in the Ottoman Empire. The tulip, or lale (from Persian لاله, lâleh) as it is also called in Iran and Turkey, is a flower indigenous to a vast area encompassing arid parts of Africa, Asia, and Europe. The word tulip, which earlier appeared in English in forms such as tulipa or tulipant, entered 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 is ultimately derived from Persian dulband ("round").
Los Angeles. California.
On Explore - Thank you so much Everyone!!!
Highest position: 59 on Wednesday, February 9, 2011
I was surprised to find a whole garden full of Tulips in bloom already. We are off to an early Spring here I think.
« If you appreciate my work and would like to support me becoming an independent photographer, become a Patreon supporter at www.patreon.com/alexdehaas, or buy me a coffee at www.buymeacoffee.com/alexdehaas :) »
... unfortunately almost over again ...
in our garden - Frankfurt-Nordend
More tulips in my personal Tulip Collection.
Explored: 11.05.2013
Enjoy the colours! Photographed in a blooming field of tulips where you may cut some flowers for yourself.
my local government at Gateshead loves its Daffodils
at Harrogate the parks and open spaces just love its Tulips
this was taken in between the snow and rain and bright starts ,,
,,,,,
,,,,
You have been sent 1 picture.
IMG_0126.JPG
These pictures were sent with Picasa, from Google.
Try it out here: picasa.google.com/