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…”.
It takes 6 years to grow a tulip from a seed
Even though we are used to perceiving tulips as bulbous plants, they can also propagate…
Tulip bulbs are edible
Tulip bulbs have actually never been purposefully regarded as a food item until World War…
The most expensive tulip bulb in history costed as much as the finest house on the most fashionable Amsterdam canal
This rare bulb was a Semper Augustus tulip and in January 1637 its price reached…
There are vases especially designed for holding tulips
Tulips have mesmerised people for centuries in different countries around the world and it was…