Scotland / UK: A painting of the 'Cape Tulip' or Tulipa sylvestris australis, Sydenham Edwards, 1804

The tulip is a perennial, bulbous plant with showy flowers in the genus Tulipa, of which up to 109 species have been described and belongs to the family Liliaceae. The genus's native range extends from as far west as Southern Europe, North Africa, Anatolia, and Iran to the Northwest of China.

The tulip's centre of diversity is in the Pamir, Hindu Kush, and Tien Shan mountains. A number of species and many hybrid cultivars are grown in gardens, as potted plants, or to display as fresh-cut flowers. Most cultivars of tulip are derived from Tulipa gesneriana.

Sydenham Teast Edwards (1768 – 8 February 1819) was a natural history illustrator born in 1768 in Usk, Monmouthshire, Scotland.

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