When you hear the tulips, surely the first thing that comes to our heads is none other than the Netherlands. Yes, the Netherlands does have a lot of parks and varieties of flowers from the country of windmills. No wonder the flower is often called the Dutch tulip flower. But, the fact is many people do not know that the tulips are not native to the Netherlands.
Number of Species
The number of these flower species reaches 150 with around 3,000 varieties. Among the most popular are the varieties of lady tulip, albert heijn tulip, and tulip zurel.
Tulips are native plants of the Himalayan mountains. But it also grows naturally in several regions of the Caucasus and Asia Minor. Tulip migration to Europe and Turkey only occurred in 1559.