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Tulip Albert is a perennial herb belonging to the genus Tulip of the Liliaceae family, in Latin its name will sound like this: Tulipa alberti. This type of tulip was discovered in 1876 by the doctor Albert Eduardovich Regel, and described in 1877 by his father Eduard Ludwigovich Regel, who is known as a doctor of philosophy, botanist and author of numerous studies of flora, he wrote more than a thousand descriptions of species and varieties of different plants. In the wild, this flower culture grows on mountain slopes, rocky areas with rare vegetation. The homeland of the presented species of tulips is Kazakhstan, where it is listed in the Red Book as an endangered species.
Characteristics of culture
Tulip Albert is a perennial bulbous plant about 20 centimeters tall. On a thick, bluish stem there are 3 - 5 leaves with corrugated edges in descending order, that is, the lower leaves are large and wide, have an elliptical shape, about 14 centimeters in length; the upper leaves are much smaller, about 5 centimeters in length, and have a narrowed lanceolate shape. At the top of the peduncle is a single goblet inflorescence, reaching 10 centimeters in height and 5 centimeters in diameter. The outer petals of the perianth have a curved outwardly pointed upward shape, the inner ones are concave with rounded edges.
The color of the petals has a wide range of colors, from pale yellow to deep red, but the base of the petals always remains black. In the center of the inflorescence are violet-black or yellow-brown anthers. The fruit is an elongated, triangular box with seeds, the number of seeds can reach 250 pieces. The bulb of a plant can reach 4 centimeters in diameter, has an oval shape, and is covered with dark brown, almost black scales on the outside. The roots of the tulip change annually, at the beginning of the season there is a generational change, at this moment the bulb has no roots, after which they grow back to fully form by autumn and dry again by May.
Reproduction
The presented flower culture is propagated mainly by seed, and very rarely by vegetative. Under favorable conditions, seeds are easily tied and produce offspring, but they do not retain the valuable qualities and purity of a particular variety, therefore, it is advisable to propagate the rarest varieties of this plant species using bulbs.
Tulip seeds are harvested in the third decade of July, spread on the bottom of a low container, and left to ripen in a warm room with low humidity. By mid-October, the seeds have dried out and matured, they are sown in open ground and left until spring, covered with a layer of sand and peat. It is also possible to sow seeds in a container with pre-prepared fertile soil, which are subsequently exposed to lower temperature conditions.
At the beginning of the spring period, the first shoots appear on the surface of the soil, which must be sheltered from direct sunlight. The first year of life of a tulip looks like a single leaf rolled into a tube, but by the beginning of the new summer season, this rolled leaf dries up and a small scale of a young bulb appears, the diameter of which is no more than 0.5 centimeters.
Further care for tulips consists in careful moderate watering, loosening the soil and killing weeds. When the bulb is fully ripe, which happens 2 to 3 years after sowing, it should be dug up and transplanted to a place of constant growth. The first flowering of such tulips will come in the fifth year of the plant's life, and the peak of decorative activity only 7 years after planting.
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