The Tulip Flowers

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEFuva3iqtxUm_HB2C2K2xTSUG3DBzsHxJs4rwBTcdSqzTVyHCvGYY33Vp8cxIarcqXrg8fy-0hmcm80hF0FRqJJYQ0hYEZcBU-KcVavUVJK3C_n-xqna8BelYentKMLBYsO-tmHulXPk/s1600/tulips-flowers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEFuva3iqtxUm_HB2C2K2xTSUG3DBzsHxJs4rwBTcdSqzTVyHCvGYY33Vp8cxIarcqXrg8fy-0hmcm80hF0FRqJJYQ0hYEZcBU-KcVavUVJK3C_n-xqna8BelYentKMLBYsO-tmHulXPk/s200/tulips-flowers.jpg" width="154"></a></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">The <b>tulip</b> is a perennial, bulbous plant with showy flowers in the genus <i><b>Tulipa</b></i>, which comprises 109 species<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-WCSP_0-0"></sup> and belongs to the family <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liliaceae" title="Liliaceae">Liliaceae</a>. </span><br> <br> Although <b>tulips</b> are often associated with The Netherlands, commercial cultivation of the flower began in the Ottoman Empire. The <b>tulip</b>, or <i>lale</i> (from Persian لاله, <i>lâleh</i>) as it is also called in Iran and Turkey, is a flower indigenous to a vast area encompassing arid parts of Africa, Asia, and Europe. The word <i>tulip</i>, which earlier appeared in English in forms such as <i>tulipa</i> or <i>tulipant</i>, entered the language by way of French <i>tulipe</i> and its obsolete form <i>tulipan</i> or by way of Modern Latin <i>tulīpa</i>, from Ottoman Turkish <i>tülbend</i> ("<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslin" title="Muslin">muslin</a>" or "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauze" title="Gauze">gauze</a>"), and is ultimately derived from Persian <i>dulband</i> ("<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turban" title="Turban">turban</a>").</div>

The tulip is a perennial, bulbous plant with showy flowers in the genus Tulipa , which comprises 109 species and belongs to the family Lil...