Bloom of tulips white
Although tulips are associated with Holland, both the flower and its name originated in the Persian Empire. The tulip is actually not a Dutch flower as many people tend to believe. Tulip or Laleh as it's called in Persian, is a flower indigenous to Iran, Afghanistan and parts of Central Asia. A Dutch Ambassador in Iran in the 16th century, who was also a great floral enthusiast, brought back tulips with him upon his return to the Netherlands in 1592 , and from there on it became known to the whole world. This part of the world is also the home of several other species of flowers and also fruits: Jasmine and Orchids are just a couple of them. Peaches (Prunus persica in Latin), Persimon and Parsley got their very names because of their Persian origins. Tulips were brought to Europe in the 16th century; the word tulip, which earlier in English appeared in such forms as tulipa or tulipant, came to us by way of French tulipe and its obsolete form tulipan or by way of Modern Latin tulīpa, from Ottoman Turkish tülbend, muslin, gauze. (English word turban, first recorded in English in the 16th century, can also be traced to Ottoman Turkish tülbend.) The Turkish word for gauze, with which turbans can be wrapped, seems to have been used for the flower because a fully opened tulip was thought to resemble a turban
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