NATIONAL NATIVE POPULAR FLOWERS OF CHINA

National Flower of China

With 5000 years of history , it is difficult for China to chose just one National Flower or a single representative from among the range of beautiful blooms that show up throughout traditional art and culture. The biggest competitors for the title are, Plum Blossom (Prunus Mei) and Tree Peony (Mudan).

So now China has dual national flowers, Plum Blossoms as an emblem while Tree Peony as National Favorite. The final decision for the National Flower of China is expected by the impending 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2010 Shanghai World Expo.

According to a survey conducted in 1994 the most popular and honored flower in China is Tree Peony flower, whereas people also like Chinese Roses, Orchids, Water Lilies and Plum Bossoms.

Other Native and Popular Flower of China

China, having enormously rich climate, affluent flower varieties and abundant floriculture plants, is renowned as the Motherland of World Horticulture with around 31,000 plant species are native to China, representing nearly one-eighth of the total plant species of the world, including thousands found nowhere else on Earth. Some ornamental Flowers originating in China include the Peony, Plum, Orchid, Chrysanthemum, Bamboo, Water lily, Chinese rose, Czalea, Camellia, Osmanthus, Narcissus, Rhododendron, Gardenia, Hibiscus, Trichosanthes kirilowi, Lotus, Artemisia annua and Annual Aster (Callistephus chinensis)

Facts about China

• Situated in eastern Asia, bounded by the Pacific in the east , China is the third largest country in the world.
• China is the most populous country of the world with a population estimated at about 1.294 billion by the end of 2003, one-fifth of the total of world.
• China is one of the original centers of rice cultivation, the pioneer of hybrid rice and the largest producer of rice in the world and number one in Grain and Cotton output.
• The oldest tree in the world is Gingko Tree of China, which first appeared during the Jurassic Age some 160 million years ago.