Jan 15, 2007 15:23
The word tulip is from the Turkic word for 'Turbans'. The first known records of tulips cultivation was started over a thousand years ago. That Flowers grew wild in Persia (Ancient Iran) and near Kabul the Great Mogul Baber counted thirty -three different species. The Persian legend recounted that the first tulips sprang up from the drops of blood shed by a lover and for a long time the tulip was the symbol of avowed love