Tulipa praecox

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Read about Tulipa praecox in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Tulipa praecox, Tenore. Height, 12-18 in.: st. slender, glabrous: lvs. 3-5, lorate-lanceolate, acute, undulated at margin: perianth beautiful scarlet, campanulate, 2-3 in. long, 3 in. across, erect, scentless; basal blotch oblong or oblanceolate and purplish black, margined with yellow; segms. widely imbricated, outer slightly longer, acute, puberulent at apex; inner shorter, obtusely cuspidate; anthers yellow; filaments long, dark purple, glabrous; ovary prismatic; stigmas pubescent, reddish. Italy and S. France; also Algeria, Greece, Syria, Palestine, and Persia. Very closely allied to last, and figured as such in B.R. 204, 1143, 1419; differs, according to Baker, "by its more robust habit of growth, earlier flowering, and ovate more imbricated perianth-segms., with a less clearly marked basal blotch."—One of the oldest known species. CH


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