Source: People's Daily - Yunnan Channel Original draft
In Yunnan, rich sunshine and abundant rain feed the gorgeous flowers and plants, a variety of precious flowers and plants are countless, Yunnan has more than 2100 kinds of ornamental plants, of which more than 1500 species of flower plants, many are rare species and special plants, can be called rare trees, exotic flowers, exotic grass flower kingdom. The most famous of these are the eight famous flowers in Yunnan: camellia, magnolia, lily, rhododendron, primrose, orchid, green velvet artemisia, gentian. On October 11 this year, the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity will be held in Kunming, in order to better show the beauty of cloud flowers, from August 25, the Yunnan Channel of the People's Network will give friends who like Yunnan flowers a brief introduction to the eight famous flowers in Yunnan.
Magnolias
Magnolia flowers, also known as magnolias, magnolias, magnolia flowers, etc., have been cultivated in China for a long time. Magnolias have been planted as far back as the Spring and Autumn Period, and the great poet Qu Yuan's "Departure from Sorrow" has a good sentence of "Falling towards drinking Mulan, and falling into the Ying of Xiyu Chrysanthemum". Magnoliaceae is one of the oldest higher plants, 120 species of 12 genera produced in China, and Yunnan accounts for more than 80 species of 9 genera, although magnolia plants are widely distributed in Asia, the temperate zone of the Americas, subtropical and tropical regions, but on the variety of species, rich in resources, still in Yunnan as the most. In Yunnan, magnolia flowers have become an indispensable ornamental flower in the courtyard of the home, you can see its traces everywhere, garden farming, noble atmosphere, elegant fragrance, pleasing to the eye.