Pixel Wild
Tulips
Tulips
Tulipa
Plantae
COMMON

Stats

Lifespan
Perennial
Size
Medium
Diet
Photosynthetic
Biome
Temperate grassland
Range
Central Asia
Movement
Sessile
Breeding
Bulbs
Defense
Toxins
Status
Common

About

A spring-blooming bulb whose cupped, six-petaled flower sits atop a single smooth stem with a few broad blue-green leaves. In the 1630s, rare bulbs in the Dutch Republic briefly traded for the price of a townhouse before the market collapsed.

Life cycle

  1. 1.
    seed
    A dormant seed waits for water and warmth before germinating.
  2. 2.
    sprout
    A first shoot emerges with cotyledon leaves and a tap root reaching down.
  3. 3.
    sapling
    A young plant grows true leaves and a stem or trunk, putting on height each season.
  4. 4.
    mature
    Fully grown, flowering or fruiting at adult size.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Liliales
Family
Liliaceae
Genus
Tulipa