History of tulips of Kazakhstan

Contacts

Zenaidae Tulipa.

Zinaida Petrovna Bochantseva (on August, 10th - on August, 17th Tashkent - Soviet botanist the cytologist and embryologist the Doctor of the Tashkent university managing cytologist and embryologist a department of the Botanical garden of the Academy of sciences Uzbek SSR.

History of tulips of Kazakhstan.

“Snow is both sides of the same page
It covers the grave and the tulip”

Richard L. Ratliff.

Botanical tours to gorge Merke in Zhambyl province.

Tulipa Zenaidae Vved. Stem with tint of violet, 10 – 15 cm tall, in shady places up to 40 cm. Bulb about 3 cm in diameter, in coriaceous, black or black-brown tunics, at the apex and at the base is adpressed hairy-pubescent inside.
Leaves 3, large, oblong, glaucous-pale-green with bright ribs, glabrous. One flower, yellow, red on the outside, 5 cm long; stem short; the outer petals are oblong or narrow-rhombic.
Inner are oboblong. Flower center in form of black star. Filaments are yellow or black. Anthers are yellow.
Flowering the Tulipa Zenaidae time in April – May. Distribution in Kazakhstan: Endemic; grows on fine earth rubble slopes in low mountain belt among grass-fescue steppes and brushwood, Kyrgyz Range in the territory of Kazakhstan.
Registered in the Red Book of Kazakhstan.

Tulipa zenaidae. Merke gorge. Zhambyl province.