Green Tulips

alexspeed78 · May 2018

I have green tulips in my garden. I planted tulips of various colours but some have come up green. One would have been a surprise but I now have 14. they have a thicker petal than the other tulips and have a rim of pink at the tip. I have been gardening for over 50 years and never seen anything like them. Are they a proper tulip? One I would have said was a malformation but to have 14 seems a lot considering the rest of the tulips are perfect blooms.

punkdoc · May 2018

Green tulips do exist.

Dovefromabove · May 2018

There are lots of 'viridiflora' varieties of tulips ... take a look here and see if you can see any like yours

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=viridiflora+tulip+types&rlz=1C1PRFC_enGB734GB735&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjDvpuuz4XbAhUkJMAKHagADzcQsAQIJg&biw=1093&bih=530

Presumably one of the packs you bought had been mislabelled.

alexspeed78 · May 2018

Nothing there to resemble them.

Dovefromabove · May 2018

Can we see a photo of yours please

Silver surfer · May 2018

Try searching Tulip green.

https://www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/tulipa-evergreen/classid.2000030680/

Fire · May 2018

A friend gave me some cabbage tulips, which I duly planted, because he gave me them. They came up a bit like the below. Totally green. I peaked inside the buds and they were all green inside too to start with. Then over about a month they opened in mad gold and red stripes.

They look very odd. Not my kind of thing at all, but striking and new to me. I had no idea they were a thing. I'm glad I have them. They look like a kids' magic experiment, like growing crystals in your kitchen or making slime with bicarb and glitter.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/6030279/uploads/editor/za/h56umtzcstdu.jpg

alexspeed78 · May 2018

They still don't look the same

Lyn · May 2018

Can we see your seeds please Alex?

alexspeed78 · May 2018

alexspeed78 · May 2018

These are the three stages of growth.

Green Tulips

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