The Tulip | Varieties and Curiosities
Varieties
There are over 5000 varieties of tulips. These are some of the most common:
- Early flowering tulips simple tulips comprises 25 to 60 cm tall, with flowers goblet, simple, sometimes fade in the sun and bloom in early to mid spring.
- Tulips flower early double tulips comprises 25 to 40 cm in height, with double flowers, often 6 to 10 inches wide and bloom from early to mid-spring.
- Tulips “Triumph”: includes those cultivars from 25 to 40 cm high, with conical flowers carried by sturdy stems, very resistant to weathering.
- Darwin Hybrid Tulips: Tulips are among the largest flowers and showy.
- Tulips flower lily tepals characteristic are pointed and turned outwards.
- Rembrandt Tulips: Tulips are similar to simple flower but the tepals have a “breaking” the basic color in streaks or “flames” of different colors. This coloration is caused by a virus infection can be transmitted by aphids.
- Parrot tulips: they measure 45 to 60 cm in height and are similar to single-flowered tulips, although the tepals are twisted, or curled edges. They bloom from mid-spring.
Curiosities
The flower color is determined by the composition and proportion of different pigments. Thus, the pink flowers contain the most variation in types of pigments, but its content is relatively level or less than that present in other colors. The white flowers exhibit hardly any pigment.
The word tulip comes from the Turkish “dulband” meaning turban and refer to the shaping of the flower when it is closed.
It has been associated with Holland, becoming one of the largest exporters of flowers in the world and a great support in the economy of this country.