How Tulips Became One of History’s Great Obsessions

A tulip can disappear beneath the earth for months, holding a spring no one can yet see. Perhaps that is part of what made it so powerful. Across centuries, people placed desire, rarity, value and expectation into a flower that had not even opened yet. This documentary follows the tulip through human history, tracing how it became far more than an ornament — and how different generations found entirely different reasons to want it. Flowertrace is for people fascinated by human history, culture, mythology, literature, symbolism and nature — told through the unexpected stories carried by a single flower. One video. One flower. Follow the trace.