Tulip

Tulips are a garden flower. Thousands of varieties have been developed and cultivated for their popular flowers. These plants grow in Asia and the Mediterranean region, and thousands of varieties are cultivated in-doors all over the world.

Tulips are erect plants with long, broad, parallel-veined leaves and cup-shaped, solitary flowers borne at the tip of the stem. The flowers are either single or double and occur in a wide range of solid colors. Tulips rarely exceed 15 cm (6 in) in height.

Interest in tulip growing mounted, especially in Holland, where it developed by 1634 into a craze called tulipomania. Tulip growing eventually became established as an important Dutch industry, and tulip bulbs are still a major export of the Netherlands.