Tulips at a botanic garden in Changsha City, capital of Central China’s 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 it’s the world’s largest rose-shaped flower formation

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

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

The tulip is a wildflower said to originate from Persia.

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

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

Chinese painting Zou Chuan An (1941) (detail)

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