Tulipa 2017

[Yann]

First tulip of the year and not the the ugliest ones 

Tulipa biebersteiniana

[Maggi Young]

First tulip of the year and not the the ugliest ones 

Tulipa biebersteiniana

Wow, so early!

[Yann]

Many of my tulips are in buds!

[Cfred72]

The shape and color are very similar to Tulipa sylvestris. In any case, in photo.





Except maybe the inside? Is it different from this one?



These photos are from April 2016 in my garden. Not this year.

[Yann]

biebersteiniana is synonymous of sylvestris.

However the eastern europe and KZ forms are always brown-green and 20-25cm max height. Those sylvestris from western europe are 25-40cm. I grow 9 differents forms of sylvestris and height is always a determining caracteristic.

[Cfred72]

Thank you for these details Yann, I thought there was a resemblance to what I know. On the other hand, I did not know that there were so many different forms.

[Gabriela]

I'll be excused to intervene here Yann although I don't know much about Tulipa in general.

Only because I got few seeds of a Tulipa scythica had to do a bit of research about the species. It seems Tulipa biebersteiniana Schult. & Schult.f. is the name applied for eastern forms with distribution in European part of Russia to Anatolia (syn. T. scythica and T. graniticola).

Tulipa sylvestris is kept as a different species. But I will leave you to do more research about this

[Yann]

Gabriela, that's exactly what you've explained.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

First tulip of the year and not the the ugliest ones 

Tulipa biebersteiniana

Have you put it on the stove for a couple of months, Yann ??    Very nice anyway !

[Yann]

:+)) nope just under glass

[Yann]

Tulipa orithyioides, such a cutie

[johnralphcarpenter]

Yours are so early! Nothing happening here.

[art600]

Tulipa turkestanica

The third photo is an attempt to show how this tulip can produce 2 or 3 flowers per stem

[Yann]

Tulipa binutans, the lack of sun doesn't help at all

[lettuce begin]

I wondered if anyone could help id these Tulips for me. These pictures were taken last year.
I was given them by a dear friend  a few years ago. All she could tell me was that they were very old varieties.
many thanks