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Creating Tulips
When it’s spring again, millions of tulips bloom across the Dutch landscape, and new hybrids in a myriad colors are being created every year.
The tulip, the iconic spring flower of Holland, comes in all shapes and colors. On his quest for One Species at a Time, reporter Ari Daniel Shapiro visits a Dutch geneticist trying to unravel the tulip’s complicated genome.