Flowers of our Travels

TULIPS •

Tulipa

Tulips come in a range of sweetly scented, bright colours with 75 wild species, all members of the lily family. The name “tulip” is derived from the Persian word for “turban” which it was thought to resemble. In Holland during the 1600s, these flowers became highly prized and much sought after leading to a “tulip mania” whereby the value shot up over night to more than 10x the average income, this was the world’s first speculative bubble.

Uses

During the Dutch famine of 1944, people resorted to eating Tulip petals. It is also the national flower of Turkey and Afghanistan.

Native to

CENTRAL ASIA • TURKEY