Tulipa eichleri/undulatifolia
Jim McKenney (Fri, 20 Feb 2004 12:30:28 PST)

This is a favorite here, but I'm distressed to see things which suggest
that I may be using the wrong name for this. I have had several accessions
of this species during the last forty years. The plant I know by this name
has plain gray-green foliage and flowers with an easily identified shape.

But I note that the plant shown on the wiki seems to have mottled foliage
and a different flower shape. Furthermore, the plant illustrated in Anna
Pavord's The Tulip shows a plant with robustly spotted foliage- foliage as
thickly spotted as any Tulipa greigii hybrid I've ever seen - and a flower
which, but for that fact that it is a red tulip, looks nothing like those
of my plants.

What's the story here?

Jim McKenney
jimmckenney@starpower.net