Tulipa clusiana

Tulipa clusiana, the lady tulip,^[3] is an Asian species of tulip native to Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and the western Himalayas. It is widely cultivated as an ornamental and is reportedly naturalized in France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Tunisia, Greece, and Turkey.^{[2][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]}

Lady tulip
'Lady Jane' cultivar
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Liliales
Family:	Liliaceae
Subfamily:	Lilioideae
Tribe:	Lilieae
Genus:	Tulipa
Subgenus:	Tulipa subg. Clusianae
Species:	T. clusiana
Binomial name
Tulipa clusiana Red. Liliac. 1: t. 37 (1803)[1]
Synonyms[2]
Synonymy Tulipa praecox Cav. Tulipa rubroalba Brot. Tulipa stellata Hook. Tulipa hispanica Willd. ex Schult. & Schult.f. Liriactis albiflora Raf Tulipa fernandezii Blatt. Tulipa porphyreochrysantha Blatt. Tulipa aitchisonii A.D.Hall Tulipa hafisii Bornm. & Gauba Tulipa chitralensis A.D.Hall Tulipa grey-wilsonii Rech.f. Tulipa oreophila Rech.f.

The plant grows to a height of 6 to 12 in (15 to 30 cm). It flowers during the spring season.^[11][12]

The following cultivars have received the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. All are relatively small, with narrow pointed tepals, often bi-coloured.

• 'Cynthia'^[13] (outsides pink edged pale yellow, insides pale yellow)
• 'Lady Jane'^[14] (inners white, outers pink bordered with white)
• 'Peppermintstick'^[15] (outers cerise pink with white borders, inners white)
• 'Tinka'^[16] (yellow inside, red bordered yellow on the outside)
• var. chrysantha^[17] (yellow flowers, flushed red on the outside)

Gallery

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  Flowering plant growing on a rocky ledge
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  Flower closeup
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  'Peppermintstick' closing up in the afternoon
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  Tulipa clusiana 'Peppermintstick' in the evening

References

1. "Tulipa clusiana Redouté | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
2. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
3. NRCS. "Tulipa clusiana". PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 12 December 2015.
4. Zonneveld, B.J.M. (2009). The systematic value of nuclear genome size for "all" species of Tulipa L. (Liliaceae). Plant Systematics and Evolution 281: 217-245.
5. Dobignard, D. & Chatelain, C. (2010). Index synonymique de la flore d'Afrique du nord 1: 1-455. Éditions des conservatoire et jardin botaniques, Genève.
6. Kumar, S. (2012). Herbaceous flora of Jaunsar-Bawar (Uttarakhand), India: enumerations. Phytotaxonomy 12: 33-56.
7. Dimpoulos, P., Raus, T., Bergmeier, E., Constantinidis, T., Iatrou, G., Kokkini, S., Strid, A., & Tzanoudakis, D. (2013). Vascular plants of Greece. An annotated checklist: 1-372. Botanic gardens and botanical museum Berlin-Dahlem, Berlin and Hellenic botanical society, Athens.
8. Everett, D. (2013). The genus Tulipa Tulips of the world: 1-380. Kew publishing, Kew.
9. Christenhusz, M.J.M., Govaerts, R., David, J.C., Hall, T., Borland, K., Roberts, P.S., Tuomisto, A., Buerki, S., Chase, M.W. & Fay, M.F. (2013). Tiptoe through the tulips - cultural history, molecular phylogenetics and classification of Tulipa (Liliaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 172: 280-328.
10. Eker, I., Babaç, M.T. & Koyuncu, M. (2014). Revision of the genus Tulipa L. (Liliaceae) in Turkey. Phytotaxa 157: 1-112.
11. Redouté, Pierre Joseph. 1803. Les Liliacees 1:plate 37.
12. Altervista Flora Italiana, Tulipano di Clusius, Tulipa clusiana DC.
13. "Tulipa clusiana 'Cynthia'". RHS. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
14. "Tulipa 'Lady Jane'". RHS. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
15. "Tulipa 'Peppermintstick'". RHS. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
16. "Tulipa 'Tinka'". RHS. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
17. "Tulipa clusiana var. chrysantha". RHS. Retrieved 5 March 2021.

External links

• John Grimshaw's Garden Diary: Tulipa clusiana