Tulipmania Art Journal
A collection of remarkable facts about tulips
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 by seeds. It is quite a lengthy process though, and it takes about 6 years for the seed to develop into a bulb and grow strong enough to bloom.
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…
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…
At the beginning of the 17th century noblewomen in France wore rare tulips on their décolletages instead of jewellery
As surprising as it may sound, before taking over Holland, the tulip gained popularity in…