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History of  roken tulip Tulip cultivation likely began in  Persia  (Iran) in the 10th century, and it eventually became a  symbol  of the  Ottoman Empire . Tulips were introduced to the Western world by  Augier Ghislain de Busbecq , the Viennese  ambassador  to Turkey, who wrote of seeing the plants in Edirne, Turkey, in 1551 and later sent some seeds to Austria. The arrival at  Antwerp  in 1562 of a cargo of tulip bulbs from  Constantinople  (now Istanbul) marked the beginning of the horticultural tulip industry in Europe. An early recipient of these flowers was French botanist  Carolus Clusius , who was an  avid   bulb  grower and is often credited with the spread of other spring bulbs, such as  hyacinths  and  irises , across Europe. In the 1590s he established a botanic garden at the  University of Leiden  and  cultivated  tulips there. In 1596 and again in 1598, broken tulips (tulips that bloom in streaks or flames of colour) were stolen from Clusius’s garden, and the genetically