Some authorities have it as a synonym of Tulipa alberti.

[2] Its cultivar 'Tangerine Beauty' has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

[3] 'Tangerine Beauty' has large bright red flowers flamed with soft orange,[4] and it blooms Mid-May.

[5] Another cultivar is T. vvedenskyi 'Orange Sunset'[6] Tulipa vvedenskyi was first published by Dr. Zinaida Petronava Botschantzeva (a botanist from Kazakhstan) in Bot.

[7][8][9] Then in 1971, Iris zenaidae was first found by Alexei Vvedensky and he named the iris (Juno zenaidae) after Dr.