Tulipa clusiana cashmeriana

We often get asked for Tulipa clusiana but have always refused to stock it, since every time we try to buy some in to grow, we get sent yellow-flowered hybrids.

Finally one trusted grower has raised a true stock and we have a small number available. The origins of this are from a 1969 collection made in Kashmir for the now defunct firm of P.N. Kohli formerly of Srinagar.

The plants have white or palest pink petals, which have broad carmine-red bands on the exterior, all on 20cm stems. The centre of each flower is yellow, sometimes stained with a little blackcurrant purple. A superb plant, but, I stress, a very limited offering.