Tulips are the national flower of the Netherlands.

Tulip (scientific name: Tulipa gesneriana L.[1]?) Tulip (scientific name: Tulipa gesneriana L.[1]?) is a perennial herb of the genus Tulipa in the family Liliaceae, with bulbs. The English name is "Garden tulip" or "Didier's tulip". The tulip is widely believed to be native to Turkey and is the national flower of Turkey, the Netherlands, Hungary and other countries.

Leaves 3-5, striped lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, flowers single terminal, large and showy, tepals red or mixed with white and yellow, sometimes white or yellow, 5-7 cm long, 2-4 cm wide, 6 stamens equal, filaments glabrous, no styles, stigmas enlarged in the form of a corolla, flowering period April-May.

Tulips are native to the Mediterranean coast and Central Asia, Turkey and other places . Due to the Mediterranean climate, the formation of tulips to adapt to the characteristics of cold and wet winters and hot and dry summers, with summer dormancy, fall and winter rooting and sprouting new shoots but do not come out of the soil, need to be after the winter low temperature in early February of the second year or so (temperatures above 5 ℃) began to stretch and grow to form the stem and leaves, March to April flowering characteristics.

Tulip is a long sunshine flowers, like sunny, sheltered from the wind, warm and humid winters, cool and dry summers. 8 ℃ or more can grow normally, generally tolerate -14 ℃ low temperature. Cold hardiness is very strong, in cold areas such as thick snow cover, bulbs can be overwintered in the open ground, but afraid of heat, if the summer comes early, the summer is very hot, then the bulbs are dormant after the summer is difficult. Require humus-rich, loose and fertile, well-drained slightly acidic sandy loam.