Tulip Central
RD Photo Quiz An
Afew things you might not know about tulips: They occur naturally in every color—except for blue. Their petals are edible. (Some taste like lettuce; others, more like peas or cucumbers.) And the 17th-century tulipbuying craze in Holland didn’t make the country go broke. The Netherlands does produce about 60 percent of the world’s supply, but tulips grow like weeds across coastal swaths of Europe, Asia, the South Pacific, and even the United States. Also thriving here: Dutch-inspired place names, though only a lucky few are also tulip meccas, like the location of this photo. Where is it? page 123.)
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