5 truth truth about tulips

5 truth truth about tulips

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Tulips are my favorite flowers, and if I have a favorite flower, maybe they are also mine!

Part of Lilly family, interesting small flowers symbolize the upcoming spring and summer - but also keep many different meanings for their different colors.

Although the whole synonyms with the Netherlands, they did not originate from Eastern Europe - was first imported from the Middle East and was planted by Flemish Carolus Clusius Botanist at the Botanical Garden of Netherlands Leiden.

But do you know that tulips can eat?

Or what about the fact that tulips help save the Netherlands from hunger in WWII?

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Tulips do not come from the Netherlands.

Despite being a national flower of the Netherlands, tulips do not originate from the Netherlands.

The tulips bloom naturally in a large land covered in South Europe to Central Asia, but introduced to Eastern Europe in the form of import from what is called Turkey.

Tulip became a craving award in the Netherlands, because it was much more active

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In the Middle East, tulips are called "dulband".

However, this may be a lie, as in this time is fashionable to wear tulips in a person's Turban - so no one really knows why they are why they are put along

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And that's the word "tulip" from!

There are more than 3,000 varieties of tulips!

This is something that will not be surprised for anyone who has walked on the famous floating flower market of Amsterdam!

With 75 species of wild tulips and more than 150 different species, it is not surprising that there are many different variations.

Even tulips bloom with maximum four different

Some of the most prominent tulips are Chinese cultures with different colors in their petals.

These tulips were originally planted by Botanist Botan Clusius, the father of the Dutch obsession with tulips, in the Netherlands in the 1600s.

He noticed that some tulips he was cultivating virus infection, which he called "tulip break", causing the petals to show beautiful color streaks and stand out in it.

After noticing this, Clusius was able to carefully spread this infection between his tulips to create many new color variations.

Different colors of tulips have different meanings.

This seems a bit clear, but with over 3,000 different variations then that means there are many different meanings for all different tulips, right?

Red tulips represent true love - symbolizing passion and romance, and usually these will create a gift for a romantic partner.

Yellow tulips represent thoughts of hope and fun and will usually be something you give someone like a good care gift.

White tulips are used as a flower to give an apology with.

Purple tulips symbolize someone's all - your Qweeeeen.

Tulips can edible.

Well, petals can easily eat and bulbs can be eaten if prepared correctly.

This is what the Dutch has learned in the winter famine in 1944.

After a strike of the Dutch railway staff, Germany Nazi stopped all food imported into the Dutch country, causing a long-term famine directly responsible for the death of 22,000 Dutch people

Due to lack of manpower at the beginning of that year, most Dutch tulip bulbs were not planted, so the Dutch government's food supply office announced instructions on how to prepare the right light bulb as well.

There is a formula for bread made from tulip bulbs, flowers, salt and water, a child described as tasting as sawdust - but even better than nothing!

Hunger ended in 1945, when Sweden exported a large amount of flour and other commodities to the Netherlands and the Nazi allowed them to enter the country.

Once again, tulips played an important role in the Netherlands history.