Biological Features Of Tulips

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

Most summer residents grow vegetables and flowers without bothering with knowledge of the biological characteristics of plants, their belonging to a particular family and genus, however, they get decent yields and abundantly flowering flower beds. Failure drives reading and seeking information. And then plants appear in front of a person from a slightly different angle. They are getting closer and more understandable. Communication with plants goes to a higher and more trusting level

Tulip structure

The plant called "Tulip" has six components:

1. Roots

The roots of the tulip are adventitious, that is, they extend from the bottom of the bottom of the bulb. And the bottom of the bulb is a modified stem, that is, we can say that the roots are formed by a part of the plant, the stem. Such roots, in contrast to the main root, which develops from the embryonic root of the seed, are called adventitious. A large number of roots are formed. They have no root hairs.

2. Bulb

The bulb is a very important part of the plant, the result of natural improvement. After all, the bulb is a modified stem and leaves. The stem turned into the bottom of the bulb, and the lower leaves, accreted in the form of a cylinder, became its scales.

The importance of the bulb for plant life can hardly be overestimated. The bulb, like in a pantry, accumulates a supply of nutrients that help the tulip to endure periods of drought and winter frosts. In addition, the bulb is an organ of reproduction and renewal, from which every spring, like a Phoenix, leaves and a delightful flower appear in the world.

Bulb scales perform 2 functions: storage and protective. The thickened juicy inner scales of the onion are filled with starch and are colored white. Dense, dry, covering scales, like sentries on duty, guarding the peace and well-being of the bulb. The color of the bulb depends on their color, which is red-brown, brown-black or brown. The surface of the covering scales is papery or leathery. During the growing season, a leaf plate is formed from them.

3. Stem

The erect cylindrical stem rises above the soil to a height of 5 to 80 centimeters, proudly revealing to the world a magnificent large single flower. Very rarely, instead of one flower, an inflorescence of two or more flowers may appear.

4. Leaves

The tulip is not rich in leaves. The fingers of one hand are enough to count them. Starting from the base of the above-ground part of the stem, the leaves grow to the middle of its height, forming a green surrounding of the flower.

5. Flower

It would seem how such a simple perianth, which has only 6 freely falling leaves, can charm. The richness of flower shapes and the abundance of shades sweep aside all doubts, multiplying the number of tulip fans every day.

Man intervened in God's creation, creating, in addition to the usual goblet and cup-shaped flowers, also lily, oval and even parrot shapes. The flower greets the life-giving sun with wide-open petals and folds them tightly when clouds or night hide the luminary. Although some believe that the moon is more important than the sun, because during the day it is already light, and the moon shines when the earth is covered with darkness (a joke, of course). As for the color of flowers, then, perhaps, only blue and pure blue tulips you will not be able to find. Although, who knows, maybe someone has already brought out such copies.

6. Fruit

The end of the tulip's life cycle is a triangular box, in each nest of which triangular flat seeds of a brownish-yellow color are located in two rows. The future of the tulip is concentrated in these little crumbs.

Short growing season

The tulip is an ephemeroid (we talked about them here: https://www.asienda.ru/floristika/efemery-i-efemeroidy/). The active aboveground life of the plant is limited to a short period of spring, when the soil still retains the moisture of the melted snow, and the sun does not warm at full strength.

With the arrival of hot days, flowers fade, leaves wither and dry up. But this does not mean that the plant has died. The tulip goes underground. There comes a period of "vacation" or relative rest.

Life moves to the tulip bulb, where the buds of the replacement bulb are formed at this time. It is these buds that will give new life to the leaves and flowers of the plant. In autumn, when the summer heat again gives way to coolness, the bottoms of the bulbs will begin to release roots in order to firmly settle for a favorable winter.