''Tulipa biflora'', the two-flowered tulip, is a species of

tulip Tulips are spring-blooming perennial herbaceous bulbiferous geophytes in the ''Tulipa'' genus. Their flowers are usually large, showy, and brightly coloured, generally red, orange, pink, yellow, or white. They often have a different colour ...

, native to the former

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. It has many synonyms, including ''Tulipa polychroma''. It can be found on screes, rocky slopes, grassy slopes and deserts. It can be found in the salt deserts in the basin of the Wolga and it can often found with the small yellow tulip, ''

Tulipa sylvestris ''Tulipa sylvestris'', the wild tulip or woodland tulip, is a Eurasian and North African species of wild tulip, a plant in the lily family. Its native range extends from Portugal and Morocco to western China, covering most of the Mediterranean ...

''.John Marius Wilson (editor) Cultivated, it has two, occasionally one or three, flowers borne on a single stalk. It has stems that can grow up to 10cm tall, with 2 (sometimes more) grey-green leaves. They are lanceolate (lance-like in shape. It blooms between late winter to spring, and the flowers are 2-3.5cm long. They are white with a yellow centre, the

tepal A tepal is one of the outer parts of a flower (collectively the perianth). The term is used when these parts cannot easily be classified as either sepals or petals. This may be because the parts of the perianth are undifferentiated (i.e. of very ...

(smaller petal) have greenish-grey backs. The flowers are fragrant. Most parts of plant are poisonous if they are ingested.

Taxonomy

It was found in the

, and then published by

Peter Simon Pallas Peter Simon Pallas Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS FRSE (22 September 1741 – 8 September 1811) was a Prussia, Prussian zoologist, botanist, Ethnography, ethnographer, Exploration, explorer, Geography, geographer, Geology, geologist, Natura ...

in 'Reise durch Verschiedene Provinzen des Russischen Reichs.' (Reise Russ. Reich. printed in St. Petersburg), Vol.3 on page 727 in 1776.

References

Other Sources

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