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Russian Ornamental | Family List | Liliaceae | Tulipa

Tulipa micheliana T.M. Hoog
[(subgenus Tulipa)]

Plant 20-40 cm. Leaves 3-4, grey green with brown-violet stripes. Flower 5-8 cm long, cup-shaped or elongated, raspberry red, grey tinged outside with bright margin. Filaments and anthers short, black. Basal blotch elongated, yellow-bordered. V - early spring to beginning of summer. F - March-April (in St. Petersburg May). Fr - June. P - by daughter bulbs and seed. Good for group planting and for cut flowers. Z 4.

Central Asia (northwestern Pamiro Alay, Kopet-Dag) and Iran. Clay and stony slopes in foothills.


 

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