This one keeps repeating. There are no broken tulips on sale that are caused by virus The ones for sale are all just tulips with two or more colors. Only in the old days ( 100 Years back) virused tulips were in vogue. Ben J.M.Zonneveld Nationaal Herbarium Nederland POBox 9514 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands telf 071 5274738 E-mail: Zonneveld@NHN.Leidenuniv.nl