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'''Tulip mania''' or '''tulipomania''' ([[Dutch language|Dutch]] names include: ''tulpenmanie, tulpomanie, tulpenwoede, tulpengekte'' and ''bollengekte'') was a period in the [[Dutch Golden Age]] during which contract prices for [[bulbs]] of the recently introduced [[tulip]] reached extraordinarily high levels and then suddenly collapsed.

== See also ==
* [[Greater fool theory]]
* [[Orchidelirium]] – the [[Victorian era]] of flower madness when [[orchid]] collecting became a popular craze
* [[South Sea Bubble]] – a speculative bubble that peaked in 1720 before collapsing
* [[Tulip period]] (21 July 1718 – 28 September 1730) – a tulip craze that symbolized the conflicts of early modern consumer culture in the [[Ottoman Empire]]

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