TULIP FLOWER

 

Characteristics:

                     Kingdom: Plants
                     Family: Liliaceae
                     Genus: Tulipa

The tulip is an herbaceus, flowering and bulbous plant.

It has flowers and seeds. It is a angiosperm plant.

It grows from bulbs under the ground. The bulb store nutrients for the future plant. 
The bulb need a cold winter to be able to grow in spring.

Tulips are perennials. The plant can live for more than 2 years.

Parts:

Tulips have a long green stem with alternately leaves.

Tulips typically have between two to six long leaves. Leaves are strap-shapes and cover with wax.

The tulip normally has one flower per stem.
The flower is like a cup. There are a lot of colors of tulip flowers except  blue. 
It has 6 petals. 
Petals protect the reproductive organs.

Male reproductive organ:
The stamen with anthers and filaments.
 
Female reproductive organ:
The pistil with the stigma, the style, and
the ovary that contains the ovules





Reproduction:

Tulip has sexual reproduction and asexual reproduction

Sexual reproduction:
The tulip has hermaphrodite flowers and the normal reproduction process is cross-polination.
The pollen is transferred from a flower to other flower of another plant through the wind, insects...

Asexual reproduction:
The tulip can also reproduce through fragmentation through bulbs



TULIP  BULBS

  
 
Fun facts:

Tulip is one of the most beutiful and most popular flower in the world.

There are around 75 wild species of tulips and about 3000 varieties.

Tulips are native to central Asia.

Today the Netherlands is the main producer of tulips in world.

The tulip is the national flower of Turkey and Afghanistan.

                                                                
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