Portland Tulip Festival
by Jon Burch Photography
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Title
Portland Tulip Festival
Artist
Jon Burch Photography
Medium
Photograph - Digital Capture
Description
Rats, missed it! I was in the area right in the middle, but didn't know it was going on. Duh! Next year for sure...
Tulips are spring-blooming perennials that grow from bulbs. Depending on the species, tulip plants can grow as short as 4 inches or as high as 28 inches. The tulip's large flowers usually bloom on scapes or subscapose or stems that lack bracts. Most tulips produce only one flower per stem, but a few species bear multiple flowers on their scapes. The showy, generally cup or star-shaped tulip flower has three petals and three sepals, 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 of the flower has three distinct lobes, and the ovaries are superior, with three chambers. The tulip's fruit is a capsule with a leathery covering and an ellipsoid to subglobose 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.
Tulip stems have few leaves, with larger species tending to have multiple leaves. Plants typically have 2 to 6 leaves, with some species having up to 12. The tulip's leaf is strap-shaped, with a waxy coating, and leaves are alternately arranged on the stem; these fleshy blades are often bluish green in color.
These tulips were photographed in Cannon Beach, Oregon with a Canon 5D MkIII camera. Wondered why there were so many tulips blooming. Duh!
Photograph copyright 2013 Jon Burch Photography
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May 24th, 2013
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