Tulip garden in Shanghai - Photos by AliceLiu, China, Shanghai
There is a beautiful flower park in Shanghai - Tulip park
The tulip is a Eurasian and North African genus of perennial, bulbousplants in the lily family.It is a herbaceous herb with showy flowers, of which around 75 wild species are currently accepted,
The genus's native range extends west to the Iberian Peninsula, throughNorth Africa to Greece, the Balkans, Turkey, throughout the Levant (Syria,Israel, Palestinian Territories, Lebanon, Jordan) and Iran, north toUkraine, southern Siberia and Mongolia, and east to the Northwest ofChina.The tulip's centre of diversity is in the Pamir, Hindu Kush, andTien Shan mountains.It is a common element of steppe and winter-rainMediterranean vegetation.