Tulipa-sylvestris_2

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Tulipa sylvestris L., syn.: Liriopogon sylvestre (L.) Raf.Family: LiliaceaeEN: Wild Tulip, Woodland Tulip, DE: Wilde TulpeSlo.: divji tulipanDat.: May 6. 2011Lat.: 44.52744 Long.: 15.14398 (WGS84)Code: Bot_0512/2011_DSC7540Habitat: Stony grassland with some bushes and scattered trees; locally almost flat terrain, calcareous ground; full sun; dry place; elevation 920 m (3.020 feet); average precipitations ~ 2.000 mm/year, average temperature 5-7 deg C, Sub-Mediterranean Montane phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil.Place: Middle Velebit mountains, Dabarski kukovi, 200 m south of the tunnel of the road Karlobag Gospi, about 2.5 km west of village Bake Otarije, Gospi region, Croatia EC. Comment: (relates to the Flickr album 'Tulipa sylvestris'): This beautiful, mostly Mediterranean, plant is getting rare. It is one of the possible ancestor of myriad of cultivars, subject of big horticultural business for centuries and also an exemplary symbol of stock market crashes (during Dutch tulip bulb market bubble in 17th century). Modern tulip is a flower that has carried more political, social, economic, religious and cultural baggage than any other on earth. Tulipa sylvestris resembles modern tulips, yet, it is also much different from them. It blooms unchanged for millennia, is vividly colored but still tender and in harmony with its surrounding, not a flamboyant clich and in garish color and it hasn't succumbed to the modern slogan 'More is better'. So one can find them only in small groups or even solitary.Highly endangered species enlisted in Croatia Red List of protected plants. The species is included in the European IUCN Red List too. It doesn't grow in Slovenia.Ref.(1) D. Aeschimann, K. Lauber, D.M. Moser, J.P. Theurillat, Flora Alpina, Vol. 2., Haupt (2004), p 1038.(2) M.A. Fischer, W. Adler, K. Oswald, Exkursionsflora fr sterreich, Liechtenstein und Sdtirol, LO Landesmuseen, Linz, Austria (2005), p 1021.(3) E.J. Jger, Rothmaler 3, Exkursionsflora von Deutschland, 11. Aufl., Elsevier, Spectrum (2007), p 600.