Photos: Gorgeous Tulips at Tulip Festival, Seattle

Posted by Aditya on December 20th, 2009

Tulip Festival, Seattle

A tulip is a perennial plant in the genus Tulipa, comprising about 150 bulbous species with showy flowers, in the family Liliaceae. The species native range includes southern Europe, north Africa, and Asia from Anatolia and Iran in the west to northeast of China. The centre of diversity of the genus is in the Pamir and Hindu Kush mountains and the steppes of Kazakhstan. A number of species and many hybrid cultivars are grown in gardens, used as pot plants or as fresh cut flowers. Most cultivars of tulip are derived from Tulipa gesneriana. [Read More about Tulips at Wikipedia]

Tulip Festival, Seattle