Tulipmania Art Journal
A collection of remarkable facts about tulips
The first tulip growing in Europe was recorded in the city of Augsburg, Germany
Tulipa turcarum, Conrad Gessner.
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In the spring of 1559, the Swiss botanist Conrad Gesner saw the tulip flowering for the first time, while visiting the garden of the magistrate Johannis Heinrich Herwart in Augsburg, Bavaria, and described it as “flowering with a single beautifully red flower, large, like a red lily…”.
The tulip name comes from the Turkish word for turban
The name the tulip originally bore in its homeland, Persia, was “laleh”, defining it as…
There are no blue tulips
With over 3000 different registered varieties, tulips come in almost every imaginable colour tint and…
There are tulips that have more than one flower per stem
Although the classical image of the tulip most of us picture is a single flower…
A folk tale from Devon tells that fairies lulled their babies at night in the cups of tulip flowers
The story has it, that there was once an old lady who planted an amazing…