Colorful Party
There will not be so many oxen in the Netherlands as a whole, but there are over 6,000 varieties in ox hearts (Tulipa sp. ). There it is, the party of color, the world of ox hearts. How many worlds!
It was a kind of business fabric that had brought the issue of Kurdistan for hundreds of years, which had been carried in Turkey through Irun and Istanbul. The aging and hybridization of ox's natural hearts began to become an option of current variety or variety that has never ceased. Thousands of variants are registered or in process, continuously creating and, entering or leaving, in the portals of patent houses. For example, the story of the variant “Arisa” in Japan. This ox heart is born from the hybridization between the varieties “On Kixote” and “Ben van Zanten”. In 1979 they planted 955 seeds of the mixture of both. After six years of work, eight types of crops were selected that were easy to cultivate, donor and disease-resistant forcefully. In 1999, after making the corresponding application for registration and analyzing it sufficiently, it was approved in 2002. You always find your knife to buy, with petals of color wine with flowers on the corners and pink tassels.
This ox heart has a petal edge of a different color, but it meets an almost involuntary mixture. As there are many, their mixtures still appear more unknown. For example, petals whose main colour is “spotted” by a type of flame of another colour coming from the bottom of the petals. To them, surprisingly, the streak doesn't end. It took a lot of me to guess what the hell that weird, attractive soiling was producing. It is caused by a virus, the I-BMB or the Heart Mosaic of Ox. This virus is spread by the lice, which itch here. Anyone who has given a clean flower can explain how mixed the following year. In mucous areas that want to keep non-blended types, they are soiled away to avoid contamination and as far as possible avoid it. Whites and whites do not show this color change.
Today, however, many of these curious ox hearts come from the work of gardeners. Day after day, he's writing a lot of similar stories. Anyway, we don't go crazy, like in the past, with those flowers.
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