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The tulip

The tulip

📖 In short

The tulip is a lovely cup-shaped flower in many bright colors: red, yellow, purple, white and pink. It comes from Central Asia and Turkey, but today people link it with the Netherlands, which grows millions of them.

🤩 Did you know?

  • A tulip stem is between 10 centimeters and more than 75 centimeters tall.
  • The Dutch grow about two thousand kinds of tulips.
  • “Tulip mania” happened in the Netherlands between 1634 and 1637.
  • A tulip flower opens in the sun and closes in the evening.

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🌟 It grows from a bulb

A tulip is planted as a bulb in autumn and sleeps underground through the cold winter, then in spring it sends up leaves, a stem and one beautiful flower.

🔍 From Turkey to the Netherlands

The Ottomans loved tulips and painted them on tiles and fabrics. Then the bulbs were brought to the Netherlands about 450 years ago, and the Dutch fell in love with them.

💡 Tulip mania

The Dutch loved tulips so much that one rare bulb cost more than a whole house! That time was called “tulip mania”.

🎯 Colorful fields

In spring the tulip fields of the Netherlands look like a huge striped carpet of color, and people come from all over the world to see them.

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The tulip
The tulip
The tulip

🧩 Test yourself

1 Which country is the tulip linked with today?

2 When are tulip bulbs planted?

3 Then the bulbs were brought to the Netherlands about ?? years ago, and the Dutch fell in love with them.

4 Which picture shows “The tulip”?

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📷 Picture sources: Wikimedia Commons