Who airbrushed my tulip? [image]

The photo below shows a "who dunnit" from the plant world. How did the gorgeous red stripes get onto the petals of this yellow tulip?
Now that the Colbert Report aired proof of the Holy Grail having been found in Spain, we can only conclude the stripes on the petals are equally irrefutable proof of intelligent design!
As manifested through the intelligence of Dutch tulip breeders. Is breeders the correct term? The search engines seem to think so, but it sounds so cattle and dog. Tulip stylists, tulip genome engineers, or tulipists all would be better choices to us, but so what.

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