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Published: 2024-11-24 Author: mysheen
Last Updated: 2024/11/24, Tulip ice cream is a new and excellent tulip variety artificially cultivated abroad. Introduced in China in 2005, this tulip is a single-headed tulip, almost the size of 2 ordinary tulips, with folded petals similar to those of a common tulip.

Ice cream tulip ice cream tulip is a new excellent variety of tulip cultivated abroad. Introduced in China in 2005, this tulip is a single-headed tulip, almost the size of two ordinary tulips, with folded petals similar to peonies, often known as peony tulips.

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Growth habits:

Ice cream tulips are very afraid of heat, so they are not suitable for growing in Taiwan. They have to be cultivated in a cold room below 10 degrees Celsius for two months, and then transplanted to the shade for two months. More than 300 ice cream tulips were planted for the first time in 2015, and only half of them were successful, with a very low success rate.

Tulip belongs to long sunshine flowers, which is sunny and sheltered from the wind, warm and humid in winter and cool and dry in summer. It can grow normally when it is more than 8 ℃, and it can generally withstand the low temperature of-14 ℃.

Cold tolerance is very strong, in cold areas, if there is thick snow cover, the bulb can overwinter in the open field, but afraid of hot heat, if the summer comes early, the midsummer is very hot, the bulb is difficult to spend summer after dormancy. The slightly acidic sandy loam with rich humus, loose and fertile soil and good drainage is required. Avoid alkaline soil and continuous cropping.

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Morphological features:

Ice cream tulip tulip is a perennial herb, bulb oblate conical or oblate oval, about 2 cm long, with brown skin strands, covered with yellowish fibrous skin.

Stems and leaves smooth and powdery. Leaves 3-5, long elliptic-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 10-21 cm long and 1-6.5 cm wide; basal ones 2-3, broad, cauline ones 1-2. Flower stem 6-10 cm high, flowers solitary stem apex, large erect, cup-shaped, base often black-purple.

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