Tulip (Tulipa) is a genus of monocotyledonous plants in the Lily family (Liliaceae). Tulips were introduced to the western world by the Viennese ambassador to Turkey, Ogier Gisleen van Busbeke, who wrote about the flowers he had seen in Edirne, Turkey, in 1551. He later sent some of its seeds to Austria.[1]
The arrival of a cargo of tulip bulbs in Antwerp in 1562 marked the beginning of European tulip cultivation,[1] and the first documented specimens were planted by the Fleming Carolus Clusius in the Hortus botanicus Leiden, which he directed from 1593. The wood tulip (Tulipa sylvestris) is the only species found in the wild in the Netherlands and became established from the 19th century. Most of the cultivated forms of the tulip are derived from Tulipa gesneriana.
Ottoman sultans wore a tulip on their turban as a symbol. The name tulip is thus derived from the Persian word "purposeband" (دولبند) meaning turban. source wikipedia.
My husband ( Arie Lok ) and I are both fanatical photographers so we regularly go out together to photograph beautiful landscapes, animals, birds and actually everything that is beautiful.
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