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| Date Taken: 2009-04-22 |
| Categories: Nature |
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| Date Submitted: 2009-06-13 5:51 |
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A tulip is a flower in the genus Tulipa, comprised of about 150 bulbous species, and in the family Liliaceae.[1] The native range of the species includes southern Europe, north Africa, and Asia from Anatolia and Iran in the west to northeast of China. The centre of diversity of the genus is in the Pamir and Hindu Kush mountains and the steppes of Kazakhstan. A number of species and many hybrid cultivars are grown in gardens, used as pot plants or as fresh cut flowers. Most cultivars of tulip are derived from Tulipa gesneriana.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Liliales
Family: Liliaceae
Genus: Tulipa
Although tulips are associated with Holland, both the flower and its name originated in the Persian empire. The tulip, or lale (from Persian لاله, lâleh) as it is also called in Turkey, is a flower indigenous to Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan and other parts of Central Asia. Although, it is unclear who first brought the flower to northwest Europe, it is the Turks who made tulip known in Europe. The most widely accepted story is that of Oghier Ghislain de Busbecq, ambassador from Ferdinand I to Suleyman the Magnificent of the Ottoman Empire in 1554. He remarks in a letter upon seeing "an abundance of flowers everywhere; Narcissus, hyacinths, and those which in Turkish Lale, much to our astonishment, because it was almost midwinter, a season unfriendly to flowers" (see Busbecq, qtd. in Blunt, 7). In Persian Literature (classic and modern) special attention has been given to these two flowers, in specific likening the beloved eyes to Narges and a glass of wine to Laleh. The word tulip, which earlier in English appeared in such forms as tulipa or tulipant, entered the language by way of French tulipe and its obsolete form tulipan or by way of Modern Latin tulīpa, from Ottoman Turkish tülbend, "muslin, gauze". (The English word turban, first recorded in English in the 16th century, can also be traced to Ottoman Turkish tülbend.)
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Tulipan (Tulipa L.) – rodzaj roślin cebulowych należący do rodziny liliowatych. Zalicza się do niego ok. 120 gatunków i ok. 15 tysięcy odmian. Gatunkiem typowym jest Tulipa sylvestris L.[2]. Naturalny obszar występowania tulipana to Europa południowa, północna Afryka, Azja od Turcji, przez Iran, góry Pamir i Hindukusz, stepy Kazachstanu, po północno-wschodnie Chiny i Japonię.
Wg jednej z legend, tulipany zostały sprowadzone do Europy zachodniej w 1554 roku przez Oghiera Ghiselin de Busbecq, ambasadora Imperium Osmańskiego na dworze Ferdynanda I. Druga legenda mówi, że przywiezione zostały ze Sri Lanki przez Lopo Vaz de Sampayo, gubernatora kolonii portugalskich w Indiach.
Systematyka[1]
Domena: jądrowce
Królestwo: rośliny
Podkrólestwo: naczyniowe
Nadgromada: nasienne
Gromada: okrytonasienne
Klasa: jednoliścienne
Rząd: liliowce
Rodzina: liliowate
Rodzaj: tulipan
Nazwa systematyczna
Tulipa L. |
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