Tulips are beautiful spring flowers that are shaped like colorful cups or bowls. They come in almost every color of the rainbow, including red, yellow, pink, purple, orange, and even ones with cool stripes! Tulips originally came from the mountains of Central Asia.
There are over 3,000 different kinds of tulips, so if you saw one new kind every day, it would take you more than eight years to see them all! Tulips have smooth, cup-shaped petals that open wide in the sunshine. They grow on tall, straight stems with large green leaves.
Tulips grow from bulbs
, which are round packages of energy buried in the ground, kind of like an onion. You plant the bulbs in the fall, and they sleep underground all winter long, waiting for spring. The Netherlands grows billions of tulips and is famous for its giant, colorful tulip fields.
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