Tulipa linifolia

Leinblättrige tulip ( Tulipa linifolia )

The Leinblättrige tulip ( Tulipa linifolia ) is a species of the genus of tulips ( Tulipa) in the lily family ( Liliaceae ).

Features

The Leinblättrige tulip is a perennial herbaceous plant, the plant height 5-20 (30 ) reaches centimeters. This form Geophyten onions as outlasting. The onion shell is at the top inside densely woolly. The three to nine leaves are gray green, bald and measure 8 to 12 × 0.2 to 1 centimeter, their margin is often wavy and red. The bloom measure 2-5 (6 ) × 1.2 to 3.5 inches, are red and have a schwarzpurpurnen, ausgerandeten basal spot or colored pale yellow and have a deep yellow or brownish basal spot.

The flowering time is in April and May.

Occurrence

The Leinblättrige tulip comes in northeast Afghanistan, the North-East Iran and Western Pamirs in the Panj valley on rocky slopes in Schibljak and Rose bushes at altitudes of (500) 1300 bis 1800 meters before.

System

As Tulipa batalinii ( usually ) a anthozyanfreie variety of Leinblättrigen Tulip has been described. Your bracts are pale yellow and have a dark brown basal spot, the inner bracts are probably dull.

Use

The Leinblättrige tulip is rarely used as an ornamental plant in rock gardens. It is in culture at least since 1887.

Swell

• Corner Hardt J. Hunter, Friedrich Ebel, Peter Hanelt, Gerd Müller K. (ed.): Rothmaler Exkursionsflora of Germany. Volume 5: Herbaceous ornamental and useful plants. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8274-0918-8.