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Sprenger's tulip is a perennial bulb from Amasya, Turkey, long thought extinct in the wild and grown as an ornamental. It is easy to grow in a sunny, well-drained spot where it can naturalise and self-seed.
Tulipa sprengeri, the Sprenger's tulip, is a species of perennial, bulbous plant in the family Liliaceae endemic to Amasya, Turkey. It was long considered extinct in the wild, but was rediscovered in June 2026 by Ercan Eftelioglu after 130 years in a rural area of Amasya, Turkey. It is cultivated as an ornamental plant.
Sprenger's tulip is easy to grow. It can be naturalised. It also successfully self-seeds, the seeds need to be stratified. The plant needs only four years till flowering-stage. The plant needs a sunny but not too hot or semi-shady position. It should be planted 10–15 cm deep in well-drained, fairly fertile, humus-rich but not too dry soil. It may need protection from strong winds, but is frosthardy to - 10 °C, as long as the soil is not waterlogged or excessively wet. The plant tends to root very deeply.
It received the RHS Award of Garden Merit in 1948 and 1993.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Tulipa sprengeri 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.
