Tulip (heraldry)

Tulip in the Grundsheim coat of arms

The tulip is in the Heraldry a little used coat of arms figure .

The plant is represented more in a natural than in a heraldically strict form. A strict abstract form has not developed, as with the lily or rose . It shows a stem with a more or less closed flower and at least two leaves (green leaves). Everything in a tincture or natural color. Poor representations allow confusion with the bellflower if the tulip has fallen. The tulip is said to be beautiful without merit.

In the city arms of Albershausen there is a green, left-hand tulip in silver.

Individual evidence

↑ Adam Breysig: Dictionary of Imagery or brief and instructive details of symbolic and allegorical images and often conventional signs mixed with them. At the same time an attempt at a decorative dictionary. Vogel, Leipzig 1830, p. 745 .

Web links

Commons : Tulip in Heraldry Album with Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

[1] Adam Breysig: Dictionary of Imagery or brief and instructive details of symbolic and allegorical images and often conventional signs mixed with them. At the same time an attempt at a decorative dictionary. Vogel, Leipzig 1830, p. 745 .