Friday, May 27, 2011

Meaning of Tulip flower

 
The beauty of tulips in the country's famous dutch flowering in winter between the months of March to April is very enchanting and colorful form. At first tulips grow wild in Central Asia and West Asia.
 
Turkish Ottoman Empire was drawn to the beauty and perfection of tulips and tulips began to grow since 1000. Tulip motif has long been widely used in ornamental art of Persian and Turkish. European name given to tulips originated from Persian to turban because when the tulips bloom yet fully shape looks like a turban. Therefore making tulips as the national flower of Iran and Turkey.
 
 
In the Netherlands so famous tulips so nicknamed as "Tulipomania" because its development is rapid. Each year sends tulips to be planted in the city of Ottawa as a thank you to Canada which freed the Netherlands from Nazi Germany and during the occupation period generously provided shelter Queen Juliana who was then still a crown princess.

The types of tulips that have been known since ancient times has the stripes motif, "brush strokes," or "flares" or have other colors on certain parts of petals, while the types of newer have a pattern of different colors on petals. For example, white tulips, red, etc.. The touch of another color on the basic color of tulips caused pigment changes at the top and bottom of the flower. As for the types of tulips there are various kinds including: Single Early, Double Early, Kaufmaniana, Fosteriana, Triumph, Darwin Hybrid, Greigii, Single Late, Double Late, Lily-flowered Tulip, Fringed Group, Viridiflora, Rembrandt, Parrot.
 

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