Didier's tulip
Tulipa gesneriana L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 30 cm
- wide
- —
Liliaceae
Also called Didier's Tulip
Formerly Tulipa baldaccii, Tulipa bicolor, Tulipa billietiana, Tulipa bonarotiana, and 42 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Bulbous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- As a cultigen from TürkiyeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from RHS, one source
- Height
- 10 cm to 51 cmRead from RHS, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -20 °C (USDA zone 6b)Read from RHS, not yet checkedOne source. Checker: RHS page does not state -20: it gives hardiness rating H6 only, whose range starts at -20
Not known yet: spread, water, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (4)
- Chinese
- 鬱金香, 郁金香
- Simplified Chinese
- 郁金香
- Welsh
- tiwlip yr ardd
- Finnish
- tarhatulppaani
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- 3D model: Tulipa gesneriana (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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