thanks ceres i might google it in a minute and see if i can find a reason for it, the other leaves are perfectly healthy and normal and it flowered and dropped it's petals the same as the other ones of it's type, strange isn't it.
It's a mutant !! Lol. I love it when plants to freaky things like that. I planted a load of sunflower seeds a year or so ago and they came up all greenery but no flower head they stayed Green all that year and i thought i had planted the seeds i had dried in the microwave, for bird feed, and had mutated them. Now they are growing Bell peppers.
We think at some point I had composted some pepper off cuts and missed the pips. Lol
Petals are modified leaves. Tulip flower heads look like leaves until they colour up. The freak leaf may be caused by a virus, insect damage or adverse weather condition. If it repeats on that bulb next year, it would be a permanent mutation and probably worth propagating from.
i had a look on google and only found one complicated article similar to what fidgetbones is saying about the petals being leaves really. I found only one image on google of another tulip like mine. Wouldn't know where to start propagating tulip bulbs.
It's interesting to come across this thread as I've had a few Tulips with leaves/petals like the pic you've posted. All bought from different companies, all of them white or lemon and all planted into either pots with fresh compost or into the flower beds. I did plant dozens of Tulips last year and of all of them maybe 5 or 6 have turned out like yours. Interesting.
this one was a cerese pink fading to white on the edges of petals, i planted loads too but only had the one. I expect everyone will find them now when they have a look at theirs
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Could be a virus.
thanks ceres i might google it in a minute and see if i can find a reason for it, the other leaves are perfectly healthy and normal and it flowered and dropped it's petals the same as the other ones of it's type, strange isn't it.
Tulips never seem to last long before they develop some sort of disease problem, or maybe that's just mine.
Maybe just fasciation. Not a virus.
We think at some point I had composted some pepper off cuts and missed the pips. Lol
Frannerz - some sunflowers are perennials and don't flower the first year - that may have been 'the problem' with yours.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Petals are modified leaves. Tulip flower heads look like leaves until they colour up. The freak leaf may be caused by a virus, insect damage or adverse weather condition. If it repeats on that bulb next year, it would be a permanent mutation and probably worth propagating from.
i had a look on google and only found one complicated article similar to what fidgetbones is saying about the petals being leaves really. I found only one image on google of another tulip like mine. Wouldn't know where to start propagating tulip bulbs.
It's interesting to come across this thread as I've had a few Tulips with leaves/petals like the pic you've posted. All bought from different companies, all of them white or lemon and all planted into either pots with fresh compost or into the flower beds. I did plant dozens of Tulips last year and of all of them maybe 5 or 6 have turned out like yours. Interesting.
this one was a cerese pink fading to white on the edges of petals, i planted loads too but only had the one. I expect everyone will find them now when they have a look at theirs