Spring Beauty
by Bruce Bley
Title
Spring Beauty
Artist
Bruce Bley
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
The 'Monsella' is a bulbous perennial with broad, linear, grey-green leaves and double, bowl-shaped, yellow flowers with bright red flames in mid-spring. I took this photograph while visiting Roozen Gaarde near Mt. Vernon Washington. This is a must see tulip farm with 900 acres where tulips and daffodils are planted. During the time of my visit they were having their annual Tulip Festival showcasing many of the beautiful tulips and daffodils.
The tulip is a perennial, bulbous plant with showy flowers in the genus Tulipa, of which around 75 wild species are currently accepted and which belongs to the family Liliaceae.
Tulips are spring-blooming perennials that grow from bulbs. Depending on the species, tulip plants can be between 4 inches (10 cm) and 28 inches (71 cm) high. The tulip's large flowers usually bloom on scapes with leaves in a rosette at ground level and a single flowering stalk arising from amongst the leaves. Tulip stems have few leaves. Larger species tend to have multiple leaves. Plants typically have two to six leaves, some species up to 12. The tulip's leaf is strap-shaped, with a waxy coating, and the leaves are alternately arranged on the stem; these fleshy blades are often bluish green in color. Most tulips produce only one flower per stem, but a few species bear multiple flowers on their scapes (e.g. Tulipa turkestanica). The generally cup or star-shaped tulip flower has three petals and three sepals, which are often termed tepals because they are nearly identical. These six tepals are often marked on the interior surface near the bases with darker colorings. Tulip flowers come in a wide variety of colors, except pure blue (several tulips with "blue" in the name have a faint violet hue).
The flowers have six distinct, basifixed stamens with filaments shorter than the tepals. Each stigma has three distinct lobes, and the ovaries are superior, with three chambers. The tulip's seed is a capsule with a leathery covering and an ellipsoid to globe shape. Each capsule contains numerous flat, disc-shaped seeds in two rows per chamber. These light to dark brown seeds have very thin seed coats and endosperm that does not normally fill the entire seed.
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April 22nd, 2017
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Comments (19)
Bruce Bley
Doug, Thank you so much for the feature in the group "Macro Marvels". I appreciate the honor.
Rona Black
Bruce, thank you for your submission to Art of the Tulip; Spring Beauty has been featured on the group's homepage.
Bruce Bley replied:
Rona, Thank you so much for the feature in the group "Art of the Tulip". I sincerely appreciate it.
Bruce Bley
Romuald, I want to thank you for the feature in the group "Arts Fantastic World". Thank you for the honor.
Bruce Bley
Kim, Thank you so much for the feature in the group "Floral Photography And Art". I appreciate the honor.
Connie Handscomb
Wow! These petals are large enough to be umbrellas for the (vast number!) of springtime showers we've been experiencing our way, Bruce! A wonderful treasure of a bloom!;))
Randy Rosenberger
What a fine piece of artwork and I am happy to announce that this beauty has been chosen for a feature on the homepage of our WFS group. Congratulations for this accomplishment. Well deserved!
Bruce Bley replied:
Randy, Thank you so much for the feature in the group "Wisconsin Flowers and Scenery". I truly appreciate it.
Michael Mirijan
This delightful picture is featured on the Master page of the “PHENOMENAL CLUB” group, and may it be known, that the author is a full member of that exceptional group. Hearty congratulations to the great artist.
Bruce Bley replied:
Thank you for the feature in the group "PHENONMENIAL CLUB", Michael. I sincerely appreciate the honor.