Welcome
to the Parkinson's New Zealand website. Our Society provides education,
information and support services to people living with, affected by and treating
Parkinson's and other Parkinsonism conditions. For more information about
Parkinson's disease, click here
For
information about your local Parkinson’s division,
click here.
The tulip is the international symbol for Parkinson’s. The story of the
Parkinson tulip began in 1980 in the Netherlands when JWS Van der Wereld, a
Dutch horticulturalist who had Parkinson’s, gave the name ‘Dr James Parkinson’ to
the red and white tulip he had developed.
In
1981 he registered his prize cultivar, the ‘Dr James Parkinson’ bulb. The name
was chosen to honour Dr James Parkinson, the English doctor who described the
condition in his 1817 “Essay on the Shaking Palsy” and to honour the
International Year of the Disabled.
