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Siam Tulip

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Zingiberales
Family: Zingiberaceae
Genus: Curcuma
Species: C. alismatifolia
Binomial name
Curcuma alismatifolia
Gagnep.

The Siam Tulip or Summer Tulip (Curcuma alismatifolia) is a tropical plant native to northern Thailand and Cambodia. Despite its name, it is not related to the tulip, but to the various ginger species. It can grow as an indoor plant, and is also sold as cut flowers.


One of the most famous wild fields of Siam Tulips is in the Pa Hin Ngam National Park in the Chaiyaphum province of Thailand.


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The Siam Tulip or Summer Tulip (Curcuma alismatifolia) is a tropical plant native to northern Thailand and Cambodia.
Despite its name, it is not related to the tulip, but to the various ginger species.
One of the most famous wild fields of Siam Tulips is in the Pa Hin Ngam National Park in the Chaiyaphum province of Thailand.
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In doing so, they may have violated SEC rules requiring that companies, to avoid improperly influencing their stock price, keep the press at arm's length in the period before a public offering.
For auctions of a single item, one standard method is the English auction, the "going, going, gone" system of auction houses like Sotheby's or Christie's, in which participants bid against one another and the item goes to the highest bidder.
Another method is the traditional Dutch auction (not the type used by Google), which originated in the tulip markets of Holland.
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