Tulipa biflora

Tulipa biflora, the two-flowered tulip, is a species of tulip, native to the former Yugoslavia, Crimea, Anatolia, the Caucasus, southern Russia, Egypt, the Middle East, Central Asia, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Xinjiang in China.

[8] Cultivated, it has two, occasionally one or three, flowers borne on a single stalk.

[8] It blooms between late winter to spring, and the flowers are 2-3.5cm long.

They are white with a yellow centre, the tepal (smaller petal) have greenish-grey backs.

[11] It was found in the Caucasus, and then published by Peter Simon Pallas in 'Reise durch Verschiedene Provinzen des Russischen Reichs.'