Tulipa aleppensis

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Tulipa aleppensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Liliales
Family: Liliaceae
Subfamily: Lilioideae
Tribe: Lilieae
Genus: Tulipa
Subgenus: Tulipa subg. Tulipa
Species:
T. aleppensis
Binomial name
Tulipa aleppensis
Synonyms[1]

Tulipa sintenisii Baker

Tulipa aleppensis is a wild tulip in the family Liliaceae.[1][2] It is native to Southeastern Turkey, Syria, near Beirut in Lebanon.[1][3]

Description

Tulipa aleppensis belongs to the genus Tulipa (family Liliaceae). It is a herbaceous, bulbous perennial. The

Tulipa praecox, but has brighter flowers.[3]
It is triploid. Wilford suspects it of being a variant of Tulipa agenensis or Tulipa iulia.[4] It is, however, shorter than T. agenensis and has more narrow tepals and a smaller basal blotch.

History

The plant was discovered near Aleppo by the German Botanist Carl Haussknecht.[4] It was first described in 1873 by the German botanist Eduard August von Regel.[6] In 1874, J. Gilbert Baker described it as Tulipa oculus-solis var. allepica Baker.[7]

As the plant is only found on cultivated land, Wilford suspects that it is a neo-tulip, descended from plants brought from Central Asia by traders.[4] Aleppo is near the end of the Silk Road, after all.

Habitat

Tulipa aleppensis is only found on cultivated land,

mulberry orchards, as recorded by Hall for the Lebanese species.[3] It is listed on the IUCN red List of threatened Species.[9]
The plant is only rarely cultivated in gardens. It needs good drainage and protection from summer rain.[7] Tulipa aleppensis grows in Muş, Erzurum, Ağrı, Kahramanmaraş, Siirt, Gaziantep and Hakkari province. The largest population in Turkey is in the Muş plain. It blooms at the end of April. It has a flowering period of 15-20 days.[10]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Tulipa aleppensis Boiss. ex Regel". Plants of the World Online. The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. n.d. Retrieved September 22, 2020.
  2. ^ "Tulipa aleppensis Boiss. ex Regel". World Flora Online. The World Flora Online Consortium. n.d. Retrieved September 22, 2020.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Anna Pavord, The Tulip. Bloomsbury 1999, 289
  4. ^ a b c d e f g Richard Wilford 2006, Tulips, species and hybrids for the gardener, Portland, Timber Press, 77
  5. ^ Anna Pavord, The Tulip. Bloomsbury 1999, 289; 20-30 cm according to Wilford (Richard Wilford 2006, Tulips, species and hybrids for the gardener, Portland, Timber Press, 77)
  6. ^ Acta horti Petropolis 2, 1873, 450; Gartenflora, Monatschrift für deutsche und schweizerische Garten- und Blumenkunde. Erlangen, Stuttgart, Berlin 1873, 296
  7. ^ a b Richard Wilford 2006, Tulips, species and hybrids for the gardener, Portland, Timber Press, 78
  8. ^ Brian Mathew/Turhan Baytop 1984, The bulbous plants of Turkey. Frome; Batsford, 102
  9. ^ "Tulipa aleppensis Boiss. Ex Regel".
  10. ^ "Muş Lalesi (Tulipa sintenisii Baker)'nde farklı yetişme ortamlarının soğan gelişimi üzerine etkileri" (in Turkish). Muş Alparslan University. May 2023. p. 3.

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