''Tulipa vvedenskyi'' is a species in the genus ''

Tulipa 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 coloured ...

'', in the lily family. It is found in

Tajikistan Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Dushanbe is the capital city, capital and most populous city. Tajikistan borders Afghanistan to the Afghanistan–Tajikistan border, south, Uzbekistan to ...

and perhaps

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. Some authorities have it as a synonym of '' Tulipa alberti''. Its cultivar 'Tangerine Beauty' has gained the

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. 'Tangerine Beauty' has large bright red flowers flamed with soft orange, and it blooms Mid-May. Another cultivar is ''T. vvedenskyi'' 'Orange Sunset'

Etymology

''Tulipa vvedenskyi'' was first published by Dr. Zinaida Petronava Botschantzeva (a botanist from

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country primarily in Central Asia, with a European Kazakhstan, small portion in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the Kazakhstan–Russia border, north and west, China to th ...

) in Bot. Mater. Gerb. Inst. Bot. Zool. Akad. Nauk Uzbeksk. S.S.R. Issue 14, Edition 3 in 1954. Then in 1971, ''

Iris zenaidae ''Iris zenaidae'' is a species in the genus ''Iris'', it is also in the subgenus ''Scorpiris''. It is a bulbous perennial from Central Asia. It has deep violet-blue or cobalt blue flowers. Description ''Iris zenaidae'' is similar in form to '' ...

'' was first found by Alexei Vvedensky and he named the iris (''Juno zenaidae'') after Dr. Zinaida.

References

vvedenskyi Plants described in 1954 Flora of Tajikistan {{Liliales-stub