{"id":200843,"date":"2020-04-03T16:00:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T15:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/?p=200843"},"modified":"2025-02-18T16:29:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T16:29:55","slug":"tulip-facts","status":"publish","type":[],"link":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/tulip-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Trendy Facts About Tulips"},"content":{"rendered":"
Tulips are my wife\u2019s favorite flowers, and if I had a favorite flower, they\u2019d probably be mine too!\n
Part of the Lilly family, these interesting little flowers symbolize Spring and the coming summer \u2013 but also hold many different meanings for their different colors.\n
Although wholly synonymous with the Netherlands, they are not native to Eastern Europe \u2013 having been first imported from the Middle East and cultivated by Flemish botanist Carolus Clusius at the Dutch Leiden University\u2019s botanical gardens.\n
But did you know that tulips are edible? Or that they are the National Flower of Turkey and Afghanistan?\n
Or what about the fact that tulips helped save the Netherlands from starving in WWII?\n
Well, all that and more to come in these 5 Fun Facts About Tulips\u2026\n
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Despite being the National Flower of the Netherlands, the tulip is not native to the Netherlands.\n The tulip bloomed natively in a big swathe of land that covered Southern Europe to Central Asia, but was introduced into eastern Europe in the form of imports from what is now known as Turkey.\n The tulip became a coveted prize within the Netherlands, as it was far more vibrant and lush in color than the flowers native to this part of the world.\n Tulips became a status symbol to the Dutch and contributed to one of the world\u2019s first financial economic bubbles known as \u201cTulipmania\u201d where they were so valuable, they could be used to buy a house!\n To this day, the Netherlands is still the world\u2019s foremost producer of tulips, producing 3 billion bulbs yearly, most of which are exported worldwide.\n In the Middle East, the tulip was referred to as a \u201cdulband.\u201d the Persian word for \u201cturban,\u201d because of the way the flower\u2019s head sat atop its stalk, resembling a turban upon a person\u2019s head.\n However, this might be a falsehood, as during this time it was fashionable to wear tulips in one\u2019s turban \u2013 so nobody really knows whether this is why they are named after turbans or if it because of their shape!\n \u201cDulband\u201d in Persian became \u201cT\u00fclbent\u201d in Turkish, which in turn evolved to \u201cTulip\u00e1n\u201d in Danish \u2013 all of which meant \u201cturban\u201d \u2013 to later becoming \u201cTulipe\u201d in French, which just meant \u201cTulip.\u201d\n And that\u2019s where the word \u201ctulip\u201d comes from!\nThe word \u201ctulip\u201d is derived from the word \u201cturban.\u201d\n
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There are more than 3,000 different varieties of tulip!\n
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