Talk:The Black Tulip

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where is black tulip comes from ?

Its fictional,since there can never be a full black Tulip,only a white or some other color,but no one ever made a black Tulip(except the guy from this book off course)Dzoni 04:48, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

-True, there is no such thing as a real Black Tulip, (excluding this book, tulip lore, and Animal Crossing WW), but there are varieties of tulips which approach black, being a very deep and dark red color. Often to create the illusion of true blackness in pictures they are photographed from below against a blue sky, or photographed at dawn and dusk. It's probably because the pigments in the petals of the flower are missing certain colors. When it comes to pigments, black is a pigment which absorbs almost all spectra of visible light. In the case of the near-black tulip, it is still reflecting some frequencies of red. Usually a blue or green pigment will absorb red. However, among tulips (as well as in other flowers, such as the rose, i.e. the fabled blue rose) blue and green pigments are simply not present (at least in any noticeable degree), so even with extensive natural breeding, you cannot achieve a true black. In any case, the Black Tulip came to represent the pinnacle of perfection and beauty, a holy grail of tulip breeding during the period of tulipomania in Europe, and this book shows the ugliness and corruption that comes from the pursuit of perfection and beauty. 71.133.22.56 10:22, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

This article needs to be expanded upon, but it's written poorly and subjectively as well. Waldszenen 30 July 2006