Tulipa sprengeri

La tulipe la plus tardive. Si le temps est très chaud sa floraison sera courte, mais elle est magnifique lorsque la fleur s'ouvre. Les 3 pétales pointues sont d'un couleur rouge vif et l'extérieure des ses 3 sépales est orange. Elle se propage uniquement par graines. Dans un jardin méditerranéen choissisez un emplacement mi-ombragé et frais. (à traduire) Roger Whitlock's PBS introductionapril 2007: "A single bulb was found in a shipment to the Dutch bulb firm of Van Tubergen from their collector in Turkey, J. J. Manissaadjian before World War I. It has been traced to the region about Amasya, but has never again been found in the wild. Curiously, Tulipa sprengeri does very well in gardens, seeding about with freedom. So much freedom, in fact, that in the early 1950s, E B Anderson, who was then administering the first seed exchanges of the Alpine Garden Society, specifically asked that seed of Tulipa sprengeri not be donated. Nonetheless, when one looks through the standard references on species bulbs, Tulipa sprengeri is often noted as rare and/or expensive. It is very odd that a species that seeds so freely in gardens is evidently extremely rare in the wild.