Tulipmania Art Journal
A collection of remarkable facts about tulips
There are no blue tulips
With over 3000 different registered varieties, tulips come in almost every imaginable colour tint and combination. By such an incredible chromatic richness, it is curious that there is one colour absolutely uncharacteristic for tulips, missing from their colour spectrum – the blue.
Although it often occurs on the basal blotch of tulips, it never completely tints the blooms, and even if there are tulip varieties called blue, like for example Blue Diamond or Blue Wow, their blooms are actually violet or lilac and never really reach a genuinely blue colour.
The first tulip growing in Europe was recorded in the city of Augsburg, Germany
In the spring of 1559, the Swiss botanist Conrad Gesner saw the tulip flowering for…
Almost 80 years after the Dutch tulip mania, Lale Devri – the tulip era, occurred in the Ottoman Empire
Although the tulip arrived to the Netherlands from the Ottoman Empire, the passion for this…
The tulip bloom is formed of … TEPALS
You are probably thinking that there is a misprint in the previous sentence, but tulips…
Tulips keep growing after having been cut
Seems surprising, but is absolutely true, the regenerative powers of tulips allow them to keep…