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Tulip Shop There are about 160 different species of tulips in the world. They grow from Italy and Australia across Asia to Japan. Common garden tulips are thought to have developed from only a few of these wild species. Plant breeders have produced thousands of garden varieties in a wide range of colours, sizes, and shapes.

Tulip blossoms are cup-shaped and grow pointing upward. Upside down they look something lik a turban, infact, the word "tulip" comes from the turkish word for turban. The plants grow from bulbs. They do not fare well in hot climates since a cool winter period is required to mature the bulbs. Well fertilized soil is the best for tulips. In most places, bulbs are planted in the fall. The bulb contains a stem and the beginings of the next year's flower and leaves, formed while the plant was in bloom. There are three main classes of tulips:

Early flowering, which usually have short stems;
Midseason, which are long stemed with larger blooms;
and Late flowering, which have the longest stems and a wider range of colour

Tulips came from Europe in about 1554 from Turkey, where they were being grown before 1500. They reached the Netherlands a few years later and became extremely popular there. The Dutch became so skillful in raising them that even today they are the leading growers of tulips bulbs shipping large quantities all over the world.

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