Garden tulip
Tulipa gesneriana
Poisonous plant: do not eat any part of it.
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At a glance
- Scientific name
- Tulipa gesneriana
- Group
- Monocotyledon
- Order
- Liliales
- Family
- Liliaceae
- Continent
- Asia
- Habitat
- Gardens
- Form
- Herb
- Leaves
- Shed in winter
- Flower colour
- White, Yellow, Orange, Red, Pink, Purple
- Blooms in
- Spring
- Use
- Ornamental
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Easy
Did you know?
- In the 1630s Dutch buyers paid huge sums for single bulbs, a boom called tulip mania.
- The name tulip is thought to come from a Persian or Turkish word for turban.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q163060 · All plants · All entries