Heavenly Tulips
by Nick Boren
Title
Heavenly Tulips
Artist
Nick Boren
Medium
Photograph - Nikon Digital Image
Description
Spring always brings such beautiful surprises! :-)
From Wikipedia:
ulips (Tulipa) are a genus of spring-blooming perennial herbaceous bulbiferous geophytes (having bulbs as storage organs). The flowers are usually large, showy and brightly coloured, generally red, pink, yellow, or white (usually in warm colours). They often have a different coloured blotch at the base of the tepals (petals and sepals, collectively), internally. Because of a degree of variability within the populations, and a long history of cultivation, classification has been complex and controversial. The tulip is a member of the lily family, Liliaceae, along with 14 other genera, where it is most closely related to Amana, Erythronium and Gagea in the tribe Lilieae.
There are about 75 species, and these are divided among four subgenera. The name "tulip" is thought to be derived from a Persian word for turban, which it may have been thought to resemble by those who discovered it. Tulips originally were found in a band stretching from Southern Europe to Central Asia, but since the seventeenth century have become widely naturalised and cultivated (see map). In their natural state they are adapted to steppes and mountainous areas with temperate climates. Flowering in the spring, they become dormant in the summer once the flowers and leaves die back, emerging above ground as a shoot from the underground bulb in early spring.
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May 9th, 2022
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Comments (8)
Gary F Richards
Outstanding floral composition, lighting, shading, lovely purple color and artwork! F/L voted
Taphath Foose
Beautiful image, Nick!!! CONGRATULATIONS, your work is featured in "Your Best Work"! I invite you to place it in the group's "Featured Image Archive" discussion thread and any other thread that is fitting!! 😊
Nick Boren replied:
Thank you Taphath for featuring my tulip macro in the "Your Best Work" group. I truly appreciate it! :-)
Nick Boren
Thank you Nader for featuring my tulip image in your Fine Art America Flowers Photography group!