[4] The plant produces only a single cup shaped flower, which is intensely red or crimson on the outside and slightly paler inside.

According to the British botanist Alfred Daniel Hall, it is quite similar to Tulipa praecox, but has brighter flowers.

[4] It is, however, shorter than T. agenensis and has more narrow tepals and a smaller basal blotch.

The plant was discovered near Aleppo by the German Botanist Carl Haussknecht.

Tulipa aleppensis is only found on cultivated land,[8] for example, on fields[4] or in mulberry orchards, as recorded by Hall for the Lebanese species.

[7] Tulipa aleppensis grows in Muş, Erzurum, Ağrı, Kahramanmaraş, Siirt, Gaziantep and Hakkari province.