Friday, August 11, 2006

Tulip:

Tulip:
Also said as tulipa is among the 100 species of flowering plants in the family Liliaceae. They are native to southern Europe, North Africa, and Asia from Anatolia and Iran, where the flower is suggested on the nation's flag and these are followed up to the to northeast China and Japan. The centre of diversity of the genus is in the Pamir and Hindu Kush mountains and the steppes of Kazakhstan. These are plants known to the perennial bulbous plants growing to 10–70 cm tall, with a small number of strap-shaped, waxy-textured, usually glucose green leaves and large flowers with six petals. The fruit contains numerous flat disc-shaped seeds which makes a appearance like a dry capsule. This flower is the national flower of Iran and Turkey, and tulip motifs feature prominently in Persian and Turkish folk arts. The European name for the flower is a misuse of the Persian word for turban, a mistake probably originating in the common Turkish custom of wearing flowers in the folds of the turban.

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