Tulip, flame pattern
Tulipa sp.
Tulip · Brooklyn Botanic Garden · 20 April 2025
Streaks of green breaking up through orange and yellow - a "flaming" pattern bred deliberately into modern tulips.
It was once caused by a virus, spread by aphids, and prized for exactly this effect during the Dutch tulip mania of the 1630s, when a single broken bulb could change hands for the price of a house. The virus also weakened the bulb, which is why the famous varieties all eventually died out and the pattern had to be bred back in without it.
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