荷兰 卓越郁金香 Remarkable Tulips – 荷兰育种合作与注册品种目录

一个由种植企业组成的育种合作组织

Remarkable Tulips 是一家郁金香种植企业的合作组织，1996 年成立，做的是新品种的育种、栽培、开发与营销。它的自我表述是一句话：**「Remarkable Tulips 的目标，是基于合作、创新和技术，获得有明确额外好处的新专属郁金香品种。」**

它不是一个育种公司，而是一层把育种者和种植者接起来的结构：参与者是一批在郁金香种植、催花和营销上各有专长的知名企业，共同拥有一个育种合作组织，再把育出来的品种交回成员去种、去推向市场。旧文把这一点说得比较含糊——「是一种合作形式，一批专门从事郁金香种植、加工和营销的知名公司参与其中」——意思对，但没说清这层结构到底怎么运作。

Remarkable 自家育种体系育出的品种里，Denmark®、Choice®、Red Label® 和 Triple A® 是最有代表性的几个。站上的品种目录一共列着 96 个带注册商标标志的品种，可以按类型和颜色两个维度筛选：类型分重瓣晚花、卡福曼那、露营郁金香、重瓣早花、流苏边、达尔文杂交种等，颜色则从黄、白、紫、橙到淡粉、红、奶油色和近黑都有。

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育种合作组织：Hobaho 观赏花卉试验中心

Remarkable 的独家育种方是位于 Lisse 的 Hobaho 观赏花卉试验中心（Testcentrum voor Siergewassen）。站上的介绍是它「在球根植物（郁金香等）的育种上有超过 30 年经验」；Hobaho 自己的介绍则更精确：试验中心自 1988 年起从事观赏花卉新品种的育种与鉴定，而这个试验中心本身就是 Remarkable 的独家育种方。

Remarkable 的育种合作组织是这样拼起来的：Remarkable 自己的育种材料，加上 Noordwijk 的老牌企业 Konijnenburg en Mark 的育种材料，两者合并而成。Hobaho 的育种页写得更清楚——郁金香育种是与 Remarkable 这个种植者协会合作做的，风信子育种则与另一个协会 Markglory 合作，此外它自己还运营其他球根植物的育种项目。

选育标准写在站上，一共五条：催花表现、长势、抗病性、花蕾颜色、叶片位置。Hobaho 试验中心那页的表述更细：第一关是观赏性，后期才看整齐度、瓶插寿命，以及重要的种植与催花特性。所有品种在育种过程的早期就要经过抗病性、保鲜性和花期的细致测试，以便在必要时快速调整方向。

测试中心的设施也一并写明：25 个隔间的温室群、供球根处理的低温储藏室、开花后处理空间、纱网与薄膜温室，以及露地育苗区。新品种培育过程中，Hobaho 用到预测遗传学、生物测试和通过组织培养快速繁殖这些新技术——这套技术是与 Dümmen Orange 合作时投入的。

2024 年的一次重组：从 6 家扩到 16 家

Remarkable Tulips 的规模在 2024 年有一次明显变化。**此前 Remarkable 是 6 家知名企业组成的合作组织，2024 年它与东北圩田的 Cooperative Kwekersvereniging NOP 达成合作，后者是由 10 家企业组成的联合体。合并之后，由 Remarkable 育出的专属品种改由 16 家企业共同生产。**

具体做法是：每确定要推出的一个郁金香品种，就在这 16 家企业之间组成一个组合，专门负责这个品种的生产和推向市场。合作公告里强调，这条路上成功引入和开发一个新品种的基础，是**与采购方建立固定的供货线**。

协调和销售统一交由 Lisse 的 Hobaho bv 负责，由其中介人 Marco Meijer 出任协调员。参与的企业名单包括 W. v. Lierop en Zn.、J.A. Borst Bloembollen、Kapiteyn Speciale culturen、Nord Lommerse Flowerbulb Group、Jac. Uittenbogaard en Zn.、Van der Avoird Lemmer、Maatschap Slootman Claassen、Oijevaar Bloembollen、Burger Lelies en Tulpen、CAN de Jong、Dirkmaat Creil、Stengs en Leijten、Schutte Handel、Ebbers Creil、Maatschap Balk Bloembollen 和 Bom Bloembollen。

这次扩围的背景是 2024 年 2 月双方签下的一份新合作协议。Hobaho 那边的公告说，这几年双方在把新品种更快推向市场这件事上迈了不少步，而这些步子要求的是另一种形式的合作协议，所以重新签了一份。公告还提到，Remarkable 育出的品种中已有部分繁殖材料开始向 Remarkable 集团之外供应。

组织目前的成员页上列着 17 家企业，与 16 家生产合作企业加上 Hobaho 自己的数目对得上。

育种者换东家之后

还有一件事要提一句：Remarkable 的独家育种方 Hobaho 在 2024 年换了股东。2016 年起 Hobaho 属于荷兰花卉育种集团 Dümmen Orange，2024 年 7 月 1 日起，Hobaho Horti Group B.V.（含 Hobaho B.V.、观赏花卉试验中心和 Boeket Handelmaatschappij）的股份转到了现任管理团队手中，总经理 Theo Aanhane、财务经理 Hans Molenaar、供应链经理 Arno Verkley，专项收购基金 MGF 作为小股东在背后参与。当时 Hobaho 有 58 名固定员工。

Dümmen Orange 方面的说法是，它要专注切花、盆栽和一二年生植物的育种繁殖，以及北美分销业务，而 Hobaho 所处的球根环节与其核心业务相距较远，所以出售。Hobaho 这边则强调连续性和可靠性：「我们这些年在育种上的努力正要开始出成果，要是不能继续走下去太可惜了。」

双方同时约定，霍巴霍仍可使用 Dümmen Orange 的相关知识与产能。**对 Remarkable 来说，中间的变化是育种合作组织的东家换了，试验中心自己继续做郁金香、百合、风信子以及唐菖蒲的育种，Remarkable 与它的独家育种关系照旧。**

两个以人命名的品种

Remarkable 的品种里有两件事都发生在公开场合，都跟公共场合有关。

一个是 Future 400。2024 年 4 月 8 日，荷兰总领事 Ahmed Dadou 与纽约市 commissioner Rodriguez-Rosa 在纽约联合广场举行的首届 Tulip Day 上，共同为这株郁金香命名揭幕。Future 400 是一个深橙色的品种，向 400 年前抵达 Governor’s Island 的首批荷兰殖民者致敬，官方把它说成美荷之间持久友谊与联盟的象征——目标是把这段关系再延续 400 年。这株郁金香由 Hobaho by Dümmen Orange 育成、由 Remarkable Tulips 负责经营开发，特点是特别强健，很适合切花生产，12 月就能开花。

另一个是 Jill Biden®。2023 年 4 月 6 日，美国第一夫人 Jill Biden 为一株以自己命名的郁金香揭幕。这株品种同样由 Hobaho by Dümmen Orange 育成，与 Remarkable Tulips 合作开发，是一款高挑优雅的流苏边品种，花色是友好的杏色，花瓣边缘的流苏在阳光下会发亮。Hobaho by Dümmen Orange 的 Foeke Gardenier 提到，她承诺送一些种球给她在白宫的花园。

品种目录里还有一个 Royal Anthos®——和上一篇文章提到的荷兰球茎与苗木贸易商协会 Royal Anthos 同名，两者没有关系，只是撞了名字。目录里另有一个叫 Paul McCartney® 的品种，也说明这个合作组织的命名偏好：给品种起有辨识度的名字，然后让它进入商业种植和推广渠道。

Remarkable 的图像库（Beeldbank）是它对外提供的实用资源，公开可查，图片按品种整理，标注拍摄场景——特写、植株与花朵组合、田间、催花、市场形态等。旧文把这一条写成了「网站的郁金香图像库是郁金香品种的标准名称」，两句其实说的是两件事：图像库是按品种和用途分类的取图渠道，而品种名称本身带注册商标标志，这才是它作为「标准名称」的意义所在。

组织本身挂靠在 Hobaho 的种植者协会体系下，各项事务——章程修订、会议组织与记录、财务行政——都由 Hobaho 提供支持，同时 Hobaho 还负责受保护品种的许可管理，从申请、合同、面积核定到许可费收取这一整套。

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A breeding collaboration built by growers

Remarkable Tulips is a collaboration of tulip growing companies, founded in 1996, working on the breeding, growing, exploitation and marketing of new tulip varieties. It describes its own purpose in a single sentence: the goal of Remarkable Tulips is to obtain new exclusive tulip varieties with clear added value, on the basis of cooperation, innovation and technology.

It is not a breeding company but a structure that connects breeders to growers: the participants are a group of well-known companies each specialised in growing, forcing and marketing tulips, sharing a breeding platform and then taking the varieties it produces back to grow and to market. The old article described this rather vaguely — that it was a form of cooperation in which a group of well-known companies specialised in growing, processing and marketing tulips took part — which was right about the meaning but said nothing about how the structure actually works.

Among the varieties produced from Remarkable’s own breeding stable, Denmark®, Choice®, Red Label® and Triple A® are the best known. The catalogue on the site lists 96 varieties carrying the registered trademark sign, and it can be filtered on two axes: type, covering double late, Kaufmanniana, garden tulips, double early, fringed, Darwin hybrids and more; and colour, ranging from yellow, white, purple and orange through pale pink, red, cream and near-black.

The site publishes the full street address, postal code, office telephone and email address. None of that is reproduced here; the organisation’s site is the place to reach them.

The breeding platform: the Hobaho Testcentrum voor Siergewassen

Remarkable’s exclusive breeder is the Hobaho Testcentrum voor Siergewassen in Lisse. The site describes it as having more than thirty years of experience in breeding bulb crops including tulips; Hobaho’s own account is more precise: the Testcentrum has worked on breeding and trialling new ornamental varieties since 1988, and this test centre is Remarkable’s exclusive breeder.

Remarkable’s breeding stock is assembled like this: Remarkable’s own breeding material combined with that of the well-known Noordwijk company Konijnenburg en Mark. Hobaho’s breeding page spells it out — tulip breeding is done in cooperation with the growers’ association Remarkable, hyacinth breeding with the association Markglory, and it additionally runs its own breeding programmes for other bulb crops.

The selection criteria are listed on the site: forcing behaviour, vigour, disease resistance, bud colour and leaf position. Hobaho’s own test centre page is more granular: ornamental value comes first, with uniformity, vase life and important growing and forcing characteristics only looked at in later stages. All varieties are tested closely during the breeding process for disease resistance, keeping quality and flowering, so that adjustments can be made quickly where needed.

The facilities of the test centre are named too: a greenhouse complex of 25 compartments, cold storage cells for bulb treatment, a de-flowering space, insect-screen and film greenhouses, and open-field cultivation for raising young plants. In working on new varieties Hobaho uses newer techniques such as predictive genetics, bio-assays and rapid propagation via tissue culture — investments made in cooperation with Dümmen Orange.

A reorganisation in 2024: from six companies to sixteen

Remarkable Tulips changed scale noticeably in 2024. Until then Remarkable was a collaboration of six well-known companies; in 2024 it entered a partnership with Cooperative Kwekersvereniging NOP of the Noordoostpolder, a federation of ten companies. After that, varieties bred by Remarkable are grown exclusively by 16 companies.

The method is specific: for each tulip variety selected for release, a combination is formed among these 16 companies, taking on production and marketing for that variety. The announcement stresses that the basis for a successful introduction and exploitation of these varieties is forming fixed lines with buyers.

Coordination and sales are handled exclusively by Hobaho bv in Lisse, with its broker Marco Meijer appointed coordinator. The list of participating companies includes W. v. Lierop en Zn., J.A. Borst Bloembollen, Kapiteyn Speciale culturen, Nord Lommerse Flowerbulb Group, Jac. Uittenbogaard en Zn., Van der Avoird Lemmer, Maatschap Slootman Claassen, Oijevaar Bloembollen, Burger Lelies en Tulpen, CAN de Jong, Dirkmaat Creil, Stengs en Leijten, Schutte Handel, Ebbers Creil, Maatschap Balk Bloembollen and Bom Bloembollen.

The context for this expansion is a renewed cooperation agreement signed in February 2024. Hobaho’s announcement says that in recent years the two parties have taken big steps towards getting new varieties onto the market faster, and that those steps — and the ones they hope to take together in coming years — called for a different kind of cooperation agreement, which was signed. The announcement also notes that propagation material from some varieties bred by Remarkable is now offered outside the Remarkable group.

The current members page lists 17 companies, which matches the 16 production partners plus Hobaho itself.

After the breeder changed owners

One more thing is worth noting: Remarkable’s exclusive breeder changed shareholders in 2024. Hobaho had belonged to the Dutch floral breeding group Dümmen Orange since 2016; from 1 July 2024 the shares of Hobaho Horti Group B.V. — comprising Hobaho B.V., the Testcentrum voor Siergewassen and Boeket Handelmaatschappij — were transferred to the incumbent management team, with General Director Theo Aanhane, Manager Finance Hans Molenaar and Manager Supply Chain Arno Verkley, and the MBO investment fund MGF involved as a minority shareholder in the background. Hobaho had 58 permanent staff at the time.

Dümmen Orange’s stated reason was that it wanted to focus on breeding and propagation of cut flowers, pot plants and bedding plants and on North American distribution, while the bulb segment Hobaho works in sits somewhat apart from its core business, so it sold. Hobaho’s side stressed continuity and reliability: all the work put into breeding is only starting to bear fruit, and it would be a shame not to be able to continue on that path.

At the same time the two parties agreed that Hobaho would retain access to Dümmen Orange’s knowledge and capacity. For Remarkable the change meant a new owner for its breeding platform; the test centre itself continues breeding tulips, lilies, hyacinths and gladiolus, and Remarkable’s relationship with it as exclusive breeder is unchanged.

Two varieties named after people

Two events in Remarkable’s catalogue are worth remembering, and both took place in public.

One is Future 400. On 8 April 2024 the Dutch Consul General, Ahmed Dadou, and the commissioner of New York, Rodriguez-Rosa, jointly named and unveiled this tulip at the first Tulip Day on Union Square in New York City. Future 400 is a deep orange variety dedicated to the first Dutch colonists who arrived on Governor’s Island 400 years ago, which the official account calls a symbol of durable friendship and alliance between the United States and the Netherlands, with the aim of renewing that bond for another 400 years. The tulip was developed by Hobaho by Dümmen Orange and will be exploited by Remarkable Tulips; it stands out for its unique dark orange colour, is particularly robust and therefore an excellent choice for cut tulip production, and it flowers already in December.

The other is Jill Biden®. On 6 April 2023 the First Lady of the United States unveiled a tulip bearing her name. The variety was likewise developed by Hobaho by Dümmen Orange in collaboration with Remarkable Tulips, and is a tall, elegant fringed tulip in a friendly apricot colour, its fringes glistening in sunlight. Foeke Gardenier of Hobaho by Dümmen Orange mentioned that she said she thought her fringed tulip was very beautiful and special, and that he promised her some bulbs for her garden at the White House.

The catalogue also contains Royal Anthos® — the same name as the Dutch bulb and nursery stock trade association, though the two have nothing to do with each other and it is purely a collision of names. Another entry, Paul McCartney®, shows the collaboration’s taste in naming: give a variety a name people will recognise, then put it into commercial growing and promotion.

Remarkable’s Beeldbank is the practically useful resource it offers, publicly accessible and searchable, with pictures organised by variety and labelled with the shooting situation — close-up, plant and bloom combination, field, forcing, market form. The old article rendered this as “the tulip image library on the website is the standard name for tulip varieties”, which conflates two things: the image library is a channel for getting pictures, sorted by variety and use, while the varieties themselves carry the registered trademark sign, and that is what makes the names standard.

The organisation itself sits within Hobaho’s growers’ association structure, with Hobaho providing support for the administrative side — founding and statutory amendments, organising and minuting meetings, financial administration — and also handling licence management for protected varieties, covering the whole chain from application and contracts to measuring areas and collecting licence fees.