Description
This is the true species and not some ghastly greigii hybrid of which there are far too many. It stays quite low 20 cm being typical but the flowers are large and wide open – in full sun, they can reach 12 cm across. They have an elegant shape that defies description, you really need to see it!
This colour form was selected from a wild find and subsequently increased in cultivation. It is a gorgeous rich yellow, unlike the normal red-flowered species. Deep in the throat are a few orange-red signal patches. The leaves only slightly spotted.
A gorgeous form of one of, if not the, most beautiful wild tulips. Tulipa greigii was discovered by Paul Graeber near Tashkent, it was named in 1877 after S. Greig, the then president of the Russian Horticultural Society.
