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Copyright: Karen ww (karen64)
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| Genre: Places |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2009-05-06 |
| Categories: Nature |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2009-08-22 5:30 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
A tulip is a flower in the genus Tulipa, comprising about 150 bulbous species, and in the family Liliaceae.
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 |
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