My parents’ house is heated with oil. Kind of unusual for Southern Illinois, but that’s how they roll. Or at least they currently roll. They’re looking at migrating to a heat pump thanks to the oil crunch.
Anyway, about 5 years ago the oil man accidently overfilled the tank and some no. 2 grade heating oil was spilled on some parrot tulips my mom planted under the tank. That year they grew, but but they looked stunted with stunted wavy petals. Every year they grow like that. My dad dug up ground there, and replaced it, but that doesn’t mean he knew how deep or how wide to dig. He replanted flowers in the same place. Until this year, they continued to grow the same way.
Now, 5 years later, the red tulips have changed.
Yeah. I didn’t think they were tulips at first either, but if you look at them, they are. The have the yellow trimmed black base to the petals. However, there’s obviously way way way too many of them. They don’t have pistils, and if they have stamens, they’re dwarfed, without anthers. Also, the stamens tend to be merged with the petals.
