Well, my first thought was the teenagers off color joke, What is better than daffodils on a piano? But propriety prevailed, and looked it up. Spoiler tulips came from the Ottoman Empire, and they even had a Tulip Era in the Ottoman Empire. The name is derived from "turban".
Spoiler The word for 'tulip' comes from the Turkish dul(i)band which itself comes from the Persian dulban, meaning turban. Tulips were first cultivated in the Ottoman Empire, and introduced to western Europe in the 16th century. Moreover, the flowers were thought to resemble turbans. Thus, the words 'tulip' and 'turban' have the same origin.
Spoiler The word tulip enters the english language from the French word 'tulipe' or from, since French is a romance language, by way of the Latin 'tulīpa', which came from Turkish 'tülbend' and finally from Persian 'dulband' Isn't language fun? Jerry
