Tulip, Legend became Reality

Among the millions of flowers that bloom in Keikenhof, the Netherlands, most needed to see at the time I visited there was a black tulip. According to some sources I've read, the black tulip black actually developed by Geert Hageman living in Oude Niedorp, a village near Amsterdam.Turns Hageman personal or corporate interest where he acting (Triflor-van Dam) did not participate. But instead I was able to enjoy the beauty of the black tulip. "Queen of Night" was registered by J.J. Grullemans in 1955 having previously been known in the market interest as the Black Parrot, Black Beauty, and Black Pearl. In fact it only purple tulip old. Interest "black tulip" He eldest called Tulipe Noire by its inventor, EH Krelage in 1891. The color is also closer to purple than black. According to Jas Versteegen, Queen of the Night, dark (aubergine) is the "mother" of the black tulip produced Hageman. As fertilizer pollen taken from the Wienerwald, varieties of tulips that are purple with white stripes on the petals.At first, tried to cross varieties Hageman.  His tulip Noire, Black Parrot, Black Beauty, Yokohama and Golden Harvest in several combinations possible. although the last two yellow varieties, these varieties in select Hageman because they possessed several characteristics such as height and shape of the leaves, and flowers. Not because of the color. However, the resulting hybrid flower then none are black as expected. Hageman earned which is also the chairman of the Federation of Tulip Development Association (Vertuco) which was established in 1979, has become a reality on a night in February 1986, after waiting about seven years from the first time a cross pollination between varieties of Queen of the Night with Wienerwald . What is imagined by Alexandre Dumas in 1950 became a reality.

Source: Robert M. Delinom