Hi, Dennis. That’s a beautiful tulip, a group of uniform offsets. Tulipa delights in variation; its taxonomy is far from settled. Your bulbs might be Tulipa orphanidea. They are surely not T. orphanidea flava. Orphanidea flava has yellow tepals outlined in scarlet. Your bulbs’ flowers are scarlet with dark hearts outlined in yellow. A dark heart with a yellow rim is one of the commonest things a tulip can produce — they do it when they are bored — so we can’t place a lot of emphasis on that. Other traits count more. But there is a dark-hearted form of orphanidea, formerly called whittallii, that has been mass-cloned in commerce and looks remarkably like your plants. I hasten to mention that other forms of syn, whittallii don’t look like that. Having acquired the Kew monograph as the monsters drove me to do — The Genus Tulipa, main author Diana Everett — I am bursting to emit a premature incredulous review, but am wrestling myself to the ground. Paige > On Apr 15, 2015, at 7:56 PM, Dennis Kramb <dkramb@badbear.com> wrote: > > Can anyone confirm if this is Tulipa orphanidea flava? I'm trying to > re-identify tulips I bought almost 15 years ago. :-/ T. orphanidea flava > is my best guess for this. Unfortunately it's not really matching what I > find on Google... at least not the "flava" part. > > http://badbear.com/dkramb/index.pl/… > > Thanks, > Dennis in Cincinnati > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/