This Encyclopedia contains over 1,120 pictures of plants and flowers (with both common and scientific names) with expansive captions outlining patterns of growth, development, and origin. Check out this resource!
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“Most of our garden Tulips have been derived from a plant named T. gesneriana which was introduced into Europe from Turkish gardens about the middle of the 16th Century. Its origin is unknown and there is no known wild species which can be considered the ancestral form.”