| Tulipa agenensis | |
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| Tulip agenensis in Israel | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Liliales |
| Family: | Liliaceae |
| Subfamily: | Lilioideae |
| Tribe: | Lilieae |
| Genus: | Tulipa |
| Subgenus: | Tulipa subg. Tulipa |
| Species: | T. agenensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Tulipa agenensis Redouté | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Tulipa agenensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Liliaceae. [1] It is native to Turkey, Iran, Cyprus, the Aegean Islands, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan, and is naturalized in the central and western Mediterranean (Italy, Tunisia, France, Portugal, Moldova, etc.). [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
Tulipa agenensis is a bulb-forming perennial. The flowers are brick red or deep red with black and yellow markings toward the center with a green stem. The petals are oval, tapered with curled tips and it has green and lanceolate foliage. [8]
In Italy, it was commonly known as the 'Red Tulip of Bologne'. [9]
The specific epithet agenensis, refers to the French town of Agen, where a wild colony of the tulips were found. [9]
T. agenensis was originally described and published by Pierre-Joseph Redouté in his painted series 'Les Liliacées' Vol.1 in February 1804. [10] [11]
A painting by the Dutch artist Jacob de Gheyn II, 'Vase of Flowers with a Curtain' in 1615, has several tulips including a hybrid Tulipa hungarica crossed with Tulipa agenensis. While Osias Beert I painting Flowers in a glass vase in a niche (undated but c.1606), also has several tulips including the Red tulip, Tulipa agenensis. [8]