- Genre:education
- Sub-genre:Bilingual Education
- Language:English
- Pages:13
- eBook ISBN:9780992618605
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Overview
History of the Tulip
Tulip (Lat. Tulipa) is a perennial flower of the lily family, which
has scaly bulbs. Its history as it ‘conquered’ the world is of interest
as well. It goes back to the 16th century, when a sizeable shipment
of seeds and bulbs was sent to Vienna. Charles de l’Ecluse, the
director of Vienna’s Imperial Medical Garden, started actively
cultivating tulips. Soon afterwards tulips spread beyond the
borders of Austria and were imported into France and Holland,
where they proved so popular that they became collector’s items
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Tulipa Greigli – Greig’s Tulip
Historical Information. The tulipa Greigii was described by
Eduard von Regel as a tulip from the Karatau Mountains, initially
as a variety of the Altai tulip (Tulipa altaica var. karatavica, 1868).
Later in 1873 it was described as a species in its own right and
named in honour of Samuil Alexeyevich Greig (1827-1887) by the
President of the Russian Horticultural Society. This particular tulip
flowers from early April to early June and multiplies in June or
July.
Distribution in Kazakhstan
From the northern deserts (in the environs of Kyzylorda)
through the mountains and valleys of the Tien Shan as far as the
Kurdai Pass (Zhambyl, South Kazakhstan and Kyzylorda
Regions). Gradually bulbs of this tulip spread through various
countries of Europe.
Protection in Kazakhstan
This tulip has been entered in the Red Book of Endangered
Species and is a protected species in the Aksu-Dzhabagly Reserve,
the Botanical Protected Area of “Berkara” (in the Zhambyl Region)
and the specialized Protected Area, “Krasnaya Gorka” [Red
Mountain] (in the Tyulkubas District of the South Kazakhstan
Region
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