Darwin Hybrid Tulips were created by 1943, which crossing the Fosteriana Tulip with the old Darwin Tulip, and nowadays this types of tulips is under the categories of Single Late Tulip.
This categories of tulips have a large bloom and with the brilliantly colour, the blooms are approximately 6 inches (15cm) in diameter while fully open. The immature blossoms look like a perfect pyramid.
This tulip is a perfect attention grabber because of the lovely pyramid shape and the brilliantly of the colour, beside that, the pedal also come with solid, speckled and striped varieties. These kinds of tulips are the best cut flower and could shelter from strong winds because of their long stems.
Darwin Hybrid Tulips are beautiful and it also plays a role of ‘perennial’ tulips. There are not only blooming well for the first couple years like other types of tulips but also years after years, as long as do not cut off the leaves after there blooming.
Flowering Period
:
Mid to Late Spring
Bloom Shape / Form
:
Lovely pyramid shape
when closed, but have a huge size when fully open, around 6” (15cm)
Ad Rem (red / orange),
Holland’s Glory (scarlet), Oranjezon (orange), Oxford
(red) , Daydream (yellow with apricot orange edges)
Example tulips
without fragrance (colour)
:
Apeldoorn (red), Big
Chief (raspberry with yellow base), Burning Heart (cream with
red), Cream Jewel (creamy white), Elizabeth Arden (dark
pink), Francoise (white), Golden Apeldoorn (yellow),
Golden Parade (yellow), Ivory Floradale (ivory white),
Kingsblood(red), Menton (apricot with orange edges),
Ollioules (dark pink with light rose edges), Olympic Flame
(yellow with red flames), Orange Bowl (orange and yellow),
Parade (red), Pink Impression (rosy-pink), President
Kennedy (sherbet orange and red), Queen of the Night (black),
Sorbet (white and pink)