She bloomed and mummified between the pages of a book, in the botanical garden of Carolus Clusius in Leiden, the Low Countries. Clusius developed the first comprehensive treatises of the Tulp family throughout his career. He was impressed by the likelihood with which they mutated into numerous varieties, noting that no other flower was remotely as diverse. The direct descendant of Tulipa clusiana, named in the honor of the botanist, can be visited today in the Hortus Academicus of Leiden University.
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