Foods and Nutrition 3351A/B Lecture Notes - Carolus Clusius, White Tulip, Petal
22 Jan 2020
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Tutorial #2: the tulip: the botany of desire, chapter 2 (desire beauty / the tulip, pages 59 - 110. This reading introduces us to the link between a very lovely plant and a financial crisis with some overtones to our recent financial melt down. Notes: never before has to flower taken a star turn on history"s main stage as it did in holland between 1634 and 1637, semper augustus. Tulips do not come true from seeds i. e. their offspring do not resemble their parents, which means the 17 provinces of holland would have been stocked with a vast array of differently shaped and coloured tulips. This explains the astounding variety the dutch managed to coax from the flower. Sexual reproduction of plants occurred when pollen was released into the air and found its way to another species to create a new variation of plant.
