Botanical Tourism in Kazakhstan

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Tulipa Borszczowii.

Botanical Tourism in Kazakhstan.

“I have not comprehended all your beauty.
Tulips from mountain steeps come to me in verse,
But you are more beautiful than them, besides - they bloom for a week,
And you are the hope of all my countless days.

Baba Tahir. "Both heaven and earth..." End of X – XI centuries.

Tours behind tulips of Kazakhstan.

Tulipa borszczowii Regel. 20 - 40 cm long, bulb ovoid, 2 - 4 cm thick, with very strong skinned, black-brown, very prolonged (towards ground surface), heavy woolly tunics inside.
Overground part of stem is 1,5 - 2 times shorter than its underground part, glabrous; leaves 4 in number, deflexed, straddled, glaucous, heavy curled, glabrate, reaches the flower, the lower one is lanceolate or oblong- lanceolate, 2 - 3 cm broad.
One flower; perianth lobes are yellow, orange or red, with basal dark-violet blotch on both sides, which is paler on the outside, 3 - 6 cm long, with short pubescent tip, the outer are hombic, the inner are inversely triangular-ovate.
Stamens are 2,5 - 3 shorter than perianth; filaments are glabrate, dark-violet, anthers are dark-violet too, equal to filaments; ovary is shorter than stamens, with sessile stigma; fruitcase is 1,5 - 2 cm thick, 2,5 - 4,5 cm long.
Tulipa borszczowii flowering time in April. Distribution in Kazakhstan Tulipa borszczowii. Endemic. It grows in sandy, clay and gypsum deserts. It occurs in Torgai, Prearal, Kzyl-Orda and Kyzyl-Kum floristic regions.
Registered in the Red Book of Kazakhstan.

Tulipa Borszczowii.