Tulips

The name tulip is relatively short, but it has a convoluted as well as a long history behind it.

The Tulip flower plays a critical role in gardens of many homes.

The tulip flower produces cup-shaped blossoms in all different colors that have been inspiring historical gardens.

Over the years, the tulip flowers have become the meaning as well as a symbol of many items.

It symbolizes perfect as well as enduring love between family members and partners.

Also, the tulip flower represents the underlying desire that is passionate.

The bulb may also represent neglected as well as forgotten love.

Entomological Reasons of the Tulip

Entomologists have traced the Tulip back to turban a Persian word.

However, this was due to wrong translation rather than correctly linking the word to the correct meaning of Persian love.

The citizens in Persia loved wearing the Tulips, especially in their writings and turbans.

Thus, the Turkish, the French and the Latin arrived, and the name used nowadays associating it with the behavior of the Persian citizens wearing the flowers in their turban hence the name Tulip.

All the known Tulips commonly belong to the Tulipa genus.

However, there are some variations known as neo- tulipa.

The differences have grown wild, and they have developed different features distinct from the first flowers.

The symbolism of the Tulip Flower

The Tulip flower symbolizes love.

However, in the olden days, the Tulip flower was considered as a symbol of charity by many Victorians. Other people such as the Turkish people associated the bulb with a form of paradise on earth.

Thus, they use to ensure that the flower was present in a number of their religious functions.

Also, there were songs, poems as well as pieces of art that were created as a way of endorsing the features of the flower.

Other nations such as Ottoman used to plant the tulip as a way of reminding them of eternal life in heaven.

On the other hand, the Dutch people popularized the flower as they considered it as a way of reminding themselves of how brief life is.

However, just recently in the 20th and 21st century, the link of the flower to started to develop.

However, the initial strength that people has about this flower can’t be replaced with the fact that it is now linked to love.

Facts about the Flower

The Tulip offers a basic cup shape that is vivid off the sides its petals.

The flower has been cultivated since the 13th century, and it was introduced to the Dutch by Turkish traders.

Nowadays, due to its associations with love, the bulbs are available in home improvement stores as well as in the groceries.

In a nutshell, the tulip flower symbolizes love.

However, in the recent past, people have been linking it to different items as well as situations.

For instance, the Dutch linked the flower to heaven as the Ottoman linked it to eternal life in heaven.

The Turkish people, on the other hand, linked the flower to paradise.

For this reason, there were a lot of songs, poems as well as artistic works that have been composed as a way of endorsing the Tulip.

In the late 20th and the 21st century, people started linking the flower with love. However, the aspect hasn’t changed the first linkage that people had to the flower.