Herbarium specimen: Tulipa sylvestris
Taxon: | Liliaceae: Tulipa sylvestris L. ("Wild Tulip") |
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Filed in taxon folder: | Liliaceae: Tulipa sylvestris L. ("Wild Tulip") |
Collected by: | Mr Joseph Edward Little |
Collection date: | 1910 to 1912 |
Locality: | Cultivated Great Britain, VC20 Hertfordshire, Hitchin, TL12, cult. Crofton, Hitchin Great Britain, VC26 West Suffolk, Stansfield, TL7852, Origin |
ex herb: | William Robert Sherrin Mr Joseph Edward Little |
exchanged: | Watson Botanical Exchange Club |
Institution: | South London Botanical Institute (SLBI) |
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fruits/flowers: | mature flowers |
notes: | In the wild site were thousands of thickly massed plants, but not 1% produced a flower. Some years ago the landowner sent bulbs to the RHS. Sweet scented. Of the bulbs transplanted to my garden only a few have flowered, so it has taken some years to produce these few specimens. |
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Documented by oldnick on 1st May 2012.