Tulipa 2010

[PeterT]

I bought this as Tulipa tshimganica last year

I baught the same, but it is not tschimganica and more than 50% turned virus infected. Check back of petals (red zone). True plant has brown ring at top of filaments.
Janis

Thankyou Janis, Hope you had a good trip.
 Here are some close ups, there are red flecks -is it virused? what tulip is it? I wont keep it for risk of virus but it is handsome.

[Janis Ruksans]

Thankyou Janis, Hope you had a good trip.
 Here are some close ups, there are red flecks -is it virused? what tulip is it? I wont keep it for risk of virus but it is handsome.
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It is nice kaufmanniana but all plants has virus symptoms. Personally I dug out all stock and burn it, although only ~50% showed inection symptoms.
Janis

[Armin]

It is some tulip clone distributed in Holland as T. albertii. T. albertii is close to greigii, but with plain green leaves. I had it very long time ago, but soon lost. What is this Dutch. I don't know. I baught it few years ago but it was 100% virus infected, so I didn't check its name. Just recently as T. eichleri I baught some Darvin Hybride tulip cultivar.
Janis

Many thanks. I bought this tulip clone from a German source but probably is from Dutch origin. Nevertheless name is unclear it is a nice and healthy tulip.

A pity is that if ones google for T.albertii images nothing really useful can be found.
If anybody is sure keeping the 'real T.albertii' - please post an image here. Thank you.

[olegKon]

One of my favourites with the nicest smell - Tulipa maximovichii

[Maggi Young]

One of my favourites with the nicest smell - Tulipa maximovichii

And it looks good in the sunshine, Oleg. Quite a revelation how fast your flowering season is catching up after your long winter..... surprising to see that now your timing is equal to others, as you mention in the Triillium thread.

[olegKon]

Indeed. We don't seem to have spring. A lot of sunshine with thunderstorms (warm). Now it is +30 outside. I hear the weather is not that nice there in Scotland

[Maggi Young]

Now it is +30 outside. I hear the weather is not that nice there in Scotland

About 9.5 degrees here now, at lunchtime in our sheltered back garden.
Sunny spells but cold snow flurries and rain.... not enough like Spring here for my liking!

[Thomas Huber]

One of my favourites with the nicest smell - Tulipa maximovichii

Oleg, I'm not a Tulip expert, but as far as I know T. maximovichii is a small red Tulip.
Yours looks like T. sylvestris to me.

[olegKon]

I suspected it, Thomas, thanks, but was given it with assurence it can be yellow as well. This one is quite happy with me while other T.sylvestris are reluctant to flower. Anyway help from experts is in need.

[Gerry Webster]

I suspected it, Thomas, thanks, but was given it with assurence it can be yellow as well. This one is quite happy with me while other T.sylvestris are reluctant to flower. Anyway help from experts is in need.

According to Brian Mathew (The Smaller Bulbs), T. maximowiczii is a minor variant of T. linifolia, both red. He also claims that the yellow T. batalinii is probably a form of T. linifolia. However, T. batalinii, as grown by me, is very pale, primrose yellow, quite different to the strong yellow of Oleg's plant.

[Janis Ruksans]

True Tulipa albertii. I grew it as species for ~3 years but only this spring had time to identify. The color is most perfect on last picture. Leaves on background is from T. regelii. Color varies to yellow, too. Flowers are large, stem length 25-30 cm.
Janis

[goatshed]

Hello from a newb
Here are some of my tulips:
t. acuminata, batalinii Bright Gem, pulchella China Coral, chrysantha, Gavota, clusiana Lady Jane, Pink Beauty Beauty Queen, and sylvestris
Nothing particularly out of the ordinary, though China Coral doesn't seem to be very common.

[Maggi Young]

What a pretty selection..... you're right, I haven't seen China Coral ..... where are you gardening Goatshed?  ( I hate having to call you Goatshed by the way!    )

[goatshed]

Thank you! I live in Creuse, France, which has certainly pushed my gardening towards alpines, since it's full of granite here. You can call me Gill - Goatshed is a useful forum name as there's not much chance of anyone else using it (and we have a couple of goats)

[Janis Ruksans]

Here two Tulipa micheliana forms. The first is from Kopet-Dag (Iranian side) and it is typical form. I saw such in Turkmenistan, In Uzbekistan near Samarkand etc.
The second is from Nuratau ridge, Kara-Karga mountain pass near Kizilkum desert border. Quite unusual form, never before saw micheliana with basal blotch without light yellowish rim.
Greatest fault of T. micheliana - it never (!) split, so it can be increased only by seeds. Of course it is not easy in cultivation, too. So I tried to cross it with Tulipa vvedenskyi (easy to grow and good increaser). The seedlings perfectly replied the basal blotch of micheliana (I used form from Turkmenistan), but inherited long stolones from micheliana, too. But it started to increase by splitting and hybrid is much more vigorous than pollen parent (micheliana).
Janis