Tulipmania Art Journal
A collection of remarkable facts about tulips
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 crowning the top of the stem, it is not uncommon for tulips to produce more than one flower on the same stem.
Such tulips are called multi-headed or bouquet-flowering tulips and although they do have a single main stem growing from the bulb, this main stem branches out into several smaller secondary stems, each producing a blossom. This way one single tulip stalk may work as a bouquet on its own, featuring a cluster of 3 to 6 full-sized flowers blooming at once.
There are no blue tulips
With over 3000 different registered varieties, tulips come in almost every imaginable colour tint and…
Tulips of tulip mania times are called broken and are illegal in the Netherlands
The capacity of tulips to change their colours and, after years of monochrome blooming, to…
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…
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…