Ileana Calotescu
Tulips are clearly an intriguing flower with a rich history.
Tulips are clearly an intriguing flower with a rich history. In Holland in the seventeenth century, tulips caused the first major financial crisis known as “Tulip Mania.” The bulbs of these flowers were traded without thought for truly fabulous amounts. They were more valuable than most people’s homes, and cost almost 10 times what an average working-class man earned in a year. Tulips are a part of the Liliaceae family, which also contains lilies, onions, garlic and asparagus.Like many other flowers, tulips are edible. The flowers can be used to replace onions in many recipes.
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Did you know at one point in history, tulips were the most expensive flower?
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the entire Dutch economy collapsed with the fall in prices of Tulips!
they are my wife’s favorite flower!
Even now tulips are very expensive in my part of the world.
Very lovely tulip. I like them a lot but they grow for such a short time. I wrote about tulip history here on Virily a long time ago.
What a lovely tulip. I did not know this about the tulip.