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The tulip to Europe is usually attributed to Ogier de
Busbecq, the ambassador of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor to the Sultan of
Turkey, who sent the first tulip bulbs and seeds to Vienna in 1554 from the Ottoman
Empire. Tulip bulbs were soon distributed from Vienna to Augsburg, Antwerp and Amsterdam.
The tulip was different from every other flower known to Europe at that time. Source
The Lady Tulip (Tulipa clusiana) is a species of tulip native to Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and the western Himalayas. It is widely cultivated as an ornamental and is reportedly naturalized in France, Spain, Portugal, Tunisia, Greece, and Turkey. The plant grows to a height of 6 to 12 in (15 to 30 cm). It flowers during the spring season. Source
The Rainbow Tulip is an historical fiction children's picture book by Pat Mora based on the author's mother's experiences growing up as an immigrant child in El Paso, Texas. The main character, Estelita struggles with being comfortable with her Hispanic heritage yet fitting in with the children from main-stream culture at her school. Estelita is bilingual while her parents speak only Spanish. Estelita's thoughts and feelings are in the forefront of this story as she finds comfort with who she is. Source
The tulip is
a perennial, bulbous plant with showy flowers in the genus Tulipa, of
which around 75 wild species are currently accepted and which belongs to the family Liliaceae. The genus's
native range extends west to the Iberian Peninsula, through North Africa to Greece,
the Balkans, Turkey, throughout the Levant (Syria, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan) and
Iran, North to Ukraine, southern Siberia and Mongolia, and east to the
Northwest of China. The tulip's centre
of diversity is in the Pamir, Hindu Kush, and Tien Shan mountains. It is a typical element of steppe and
winter-rain Mediterranean vegetation. A number of species and many hybrid cultivars
are grown in gardens, as potted plants, or as cut flowers. The flowers have six
distinct, basifixed stamens with filaments shorter than the tepals. Each stigma
has three distinct lobes, and the ovaries are superior, with three chambers.
The tulip's seed is a capsule with a leathery covering and an ellipsoid to
globe shape. Each capsule contains numerous flat, disc-shaped seeds in two rows
per chamber. Source
