Species Tulip
Tulipa sp.
Tulip · Brooklyn Botanic Garden · 20 April 2025
Narrower and more pointed than a garden hybrid, still closed into a slim taper rather than a cup.
Closer in build to the wild tulips of Central Asia that every garden tulip descends from than to the blowsy hybrids nearby. The wild ones grow on the mountain steppes of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, and the Turks were breeding them for the Ottoman court a century before the Dutch saw one.
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