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Tulipa
kaufmanii
has
just come into flower in our garden, at the end
of March, making a splash of red, white and
yellow. It is one of the earlier species to
open; and is often known as the 'waterlily'
tulip because of the way its petals spread
widely open in the sunshine and close at
night. |
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Tulipa
kaufmanniana is described as one of the easiest
species to grow - there is a good article in the
Telegraph -
follow this link to read it.
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many tulips, its natural habitat is in central
Asia, centred on Tajikistan and Turkmenistan,
and we saw the plant shown above in the Tien
Shan Mountains in Kazakhstan, when we were there
in 2008 with Greentours. |
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individual plants showed a wide range of
variation in the pattern of the typical yellow -
white - red colouring,
There it
was accompanied by other tulip species,
including T. Griegii. Both of these have given
rise to many named hybrid varieties
It was
first described in 1877, and named after Konstantin
Petrovich von Kaufmann, the first
Governor-General of Russian Turkestan. |
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