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…”.
Tulip bulbs have actually never been purposefully regarded as a food item until World War II, when during the winter of 1944-1945, the Netherlands were…
While it is true that the majority of tulips are odourless, some of them are blessed with quite a pleasant and sometimes intense fragrance. But…
The name the tulip originally bore in its homeland, Persia, was “laleh”, defining it as “Flower of God”, because the letters forming the name of…
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…