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Tulipa sylvestris
Wild Tulip
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Photographer: Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy
ID: 0000 0000 0521 0774 (2021-05-12)Copyright © 2021 Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy
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date of photo May 6, 2011
latitude 44.52744 longitude 15.14398
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location
Middle Velebit mountains, Dabarski kukovi, 200 m south of the tunnel of the road Karlobag – Gospić, about 2.5 km west of village Baške Oštarije (Gospić region, Croatia)notes Slo.: divji tulipan - syn.: Liriopogon sylvestre (L.) Raf. - Habitat: Stony grassland with some bushes and scattered trees; locally almost flat terrain, calcareous ground; full sun; dry place; elevation 920 m (3.020 feet); average precipitations ~ 2.000 mm/year, average temperature 5-7 deg C, Sub-Mediterranean Montane phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil. Comment: (relates to the Flickr album 'Tulipa sylvestris'): This beautiful, mostly Mediterranean, plant is getting rare. It is one of the possible ancestor of myriad of cultivars, subject of big horticultural business for centuries and also an exemplary symbol of stock market crashes (during Dutch tulip bulb market bubble in 17th century). Modern tulip is a flower that has carried more political, social, economic, religious and cultural baggage than any other on earth. Tulipa sylvestris resembles modern tulips, yet, it is also much different from them. It blooms unchanged for millennia, is vividly colored but still tender and in harmony with its surrounding, not a flamboyant cliché and in garish color and it hasn't succumbed to the modern slogan 'More is better'. So one can find them only in small groups or even solitary. Highly endangered species enlisted in Croatia Red List of protected plants. The species is included in the European IUCN Red List too. It doesn't grow in Slovenia. Ref. (1) D. Aeschimann, K. Lauber, D.M. Moser, J.P. Theurillat, Flora Alpina, Vol. 2., Haupt (2004), p 1038. (2) M.A. Fischer, W. Adler, K. Oswald, Exkursionsflora für Österreich, Liechtenstein und Südtirol, LO Landesmuseen, Linz, Austria (2005), p 1021. (3) E.J. Jäger, Rothmaler 3, Exkursionsflora von Deutschland, 11. Aufl., Elsevier, Spectrum (2007), p 600.camera Nikon D700 / Nikkor Micro 105mm/f2.8
contributor's ID # Bot_0512/2011_DSC7540 photo category: Plant - annual/perennial
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Wild Tulip, Woodland Tulip (photographer)
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