Tulipa hungarica

Tulipa hungarica, the Hungarian tulip, Danube tulip, Banat tulip or Rhodope tulip, is a species of flowering plant in the family Liliaceae. It is also in the subgenus Tulipa. It is found on the rocky mountainsides of Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Slovenia, especially along the gorges of the river Danube. It has small bright yellow flowers in spring and blue-grey leaves.

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Tulipa hungarica is a perennial plant, with a small, ovoid shaped bulb that has brown papery skin (tunicate) and sessile bulbils (growing off main bulb). Meaning that it vegetatively increases from the original plants. It has large glaucous (blue-grey coloured) leaves, which are elliptic-lanceolate or linear-lanceolate shaped. They can be up to 30–37 cm (1 ft 0 in – 1 ft 3 in) long and 5.7–7.8 cm (2.2 in – 3.1 in) wide. It has a hairless stem and the plant can grow up to 40–60 cm (1 ft 4 in – 2 ft 0 in) tall. It blooms in spring, between March, or April, to May. The small flowers, are odourless, and yellow. The petals do not have a basal blotch. It has 3 inner and 3 outer flower petals, which slightly overlap, they are between 5–10 cm (2.0 in – 3.9 in) long, and 22–35 mm (0.87 in – 1.38 in) wide. The outer petals are up to three times as long as wide, ending in a little point, like a 6 pointed star. It has stamens with yellow, or golden yellow anthers, which are 10–16 mm long. It has an elongated ovary, with a stigma that is approx. twice as long and broader than the ovary. After the tulip has flowered it produces a seed capsule or fruit, which is elongated or elliptical and 70 mm long, and is inclined on both endpoints. Inside the capsule, it has numerous flat brown seeds. Genetics As most tulips are diploid, having two sets of chromosomes. This can be used to identify hybrids and used in the classification of groupings. Such as Raamsdonk, L. W. D. van & T. de Vries. 1995. Species relationships and taxonomy in Tulipa subg. Tulipa (Liliaceae). Tulipa hungarica has a chromosome count: 2n=2x=24. Its somatic (cellular) DNA 2C value (2C) was calculated in 2008 to be 64.7–66. Tulipa rhodopaea was 67.6–70.