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Tulipa regelii

Tulipa regelii
Photo: Yuri Pirogov, CC BY-SA 3.0

Tulipa regelii, the plicate or Regel's tulip, is a rare wild tulip from dry, rocky slopes in southeast Kazakhstan, grown for its distinctive pleated leaves and April flowers. It needs a cold winter rest and very sharp drainage.

Family
Liliaceae (Lily family)
Grows as
Bulb
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly during active growth in spring and keep the bulb dry during summer dormancy.
Soil
Very free-draining, gritty or sandy mix, low in organic matter.
Temperature
Hardy in cold winters, tolerating well below freezing when dormant; hot, dry summers are normal for it.
How easy
Moderate
Safety
Toxic to cats and dogs (ASPCA).
Native range
SE. Kazakhstan
Climate
temperate

About

Tulipa regelii, the plicate tulip or Regel's tulip, is a species of tulip native to southeast Kazakhstan. Rare, growing only in certain dry, rocky areas in the Chu-Ili Range, a northern subrange of the Tian Shan range, it is a very distinctive species with bizarre plicate leaves, usually only one, occasionally two. The species was first formally named by Russian botanist and geographer Andrej Nikolaevich Krasnov. It flowers in April.

Other Tulipa plants

Eyed Tulip · Albanian Tulip · Tulipa alberti · Tulipa aleppensis · Tulipa altaica · Armenian Tulip · Biflora Tulip · Tulipa bifloriformis · Lady tulip · Cretan Tulip · Cyprus tulip · Tulipa dasystemon

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Tulipa regelii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

Pet safety from the ASPCA toxic and non-toxic plant lists.

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