Do you know where the homeland of tulips...and what tulip means??

There are over 100 species of tulips. Most originated in the arid regions of Central Asia Minor. Their range extended into China then west to Spain's Iberian Peninsula across the Tien-Shan and the Pamir Alai Mountain Ranges. Another center of Tulipa spiecies was the Caucasus Mountains, between the Black and the Caspian Seas.


http://www.eoearth.org/article/Biologica...


http://www.biodiversityhotspots.org/xp/H...


http://www.timberpress.com/books/excerpt...


The Turks were the first we know that cultivated the bulb. Suleyman the Magnificent %26amp; his people were avid about gardening. Tulips were in all manner of gardens even in common homes. They call the plant lâle. Their preferred form was very different than what we now consider the common shape.


Their depictions looked more like the Tulipa acuminata


http://images.google.com/images?q=Tulipa...


This led to the lily form


http://www.vanengelen.com/catview.cgi?_f...








" The etymology of the word tulip may be traced to dulband, or turban, which European and British travelers likened to the shape of the flowers."


http://www.turizm.net/cities/cappadocia/...


http://www.americanmeadows.com/QuickGuid...


Here are a few species available to gardeners


http://www.vanengelen.com/catview.cgi?_f...

Do you know where the homeland of tulips...and what tulip means??
Tulips are from Turkey, I believe. They were first imported and cultivated in Europe by the Dutch. I believe the name refers in some way to a turban, but I don't know the derivation.
Reply:There are so many varieties of tulips and as such one cannot be specific of its homeland.to find the meaning of tulip,just type tulip in one of your search engines in your computer such as goggle
Reply:if you're talking about tulips as in the type of flower


their homeland is holland