China Changsha Botanical Garden tulips

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Changsha tulips
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Tulips at a botanic garden in Changsha City,
capital of Central Chinas Hunan Province. More
than 600,000 tulips were planted at the garden to
form a giant pattern of a rose over an area of
16,000 square meters. A representative from the
garden said its the worlds largest rose-shaped
flower formation
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An aerial view of tulips at a botanic garden in
Changsha, March 8, 2017. The garden introduced
135 kinds of tulips (around 600,000 bulbs) from
the Netherlands in 2014
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The tulip is a Eurasian and North African genus
of perennial, bulbous plants in the lily
family. It is a herbaceous herb with
showy flowers, of which around 75
wild species are currently accepted. The genus's
native range extends west to the Iberian
Peninsula, through North Africa to Greece,
the Balkans, Turkey, throughout the Levant
(Syria, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Lebanon, 
Jordan) and Iran, north to Ukraine, southern
Siberia and Mongolia, and east to the Northwest
of China
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The tulip is a wildflower said to originate from
Persia.
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In the 1500s, tulips were extensively cultivated
in Turkey, and because of their resemblance to
the "tulbend" a turban worn by Turkish men
were called tulipan
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The tulip's centre of diversity is in
the Pamir, Hindu Kush, and Tien Shan mountains.
It is a common element of steppe and
winter-rain Mediterranean vegetation
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Chinese painting Zou Chuan An (1941) (detail)
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2017
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