China's Ten Rarest Flowers, Ten Rare Flowers in China

China's Top 10 Rarest Flowers

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China's Top 10 Rarest Flowers

China's top 10 rarest flowers are golden camellia,鹅掌楸 ( heavenly banana ), four medicine door flowers, rhododendron red camellia, tiger face flowers, heavenly Empress flowers, black peony, Danxia wutong, Lijiang ladyslipper, and silver thread plum. Among them, black peony is native to our country and is a flower with mythical significance, which is very rare and belongs to a rare variety. Although there are many colors of flowers in the world, black flowers are very rare.

China's top 10 rarest flowers are golden camellia,鹅掌楸, four medicine door flowers, rhododendron red camellia, tiger face flowers, heavenly Empress flowers, black peony, Danxia wutong, Lijiang ladyslipper, and silver thread plum, etc.

Golden Camellia

Golden camellia belongs to the Camellia genus of the Theaceae family, and is a twin sister of tea, Camellia, Nanshan tea, oil tea, and Camellia japonica, and is one of the national first-class protected plants. The golden camellia flower is golden yellow, bright and dazzling, as if coated with wax, crystal clear and oily, giving a semi-transparent feeling.

Heavenly Banana

Heavenly banana is a plant of the Magnoliaceae family and the Liriodendron genus. It is a deciduous large tree, up to 40 meters high and more than 1 meter in diameter at breast height. It grows in mountain forests at altitudes of 900-1,000 meters.

The wood is light reddish brown, the texture is straight, the structure is fine, and it is a good material for construction, shipbuilding, furniture, and fine woodworking, as well as for making plywood; the leaves and bark are used as medicine. It is the most precious tree species in the world.

Four Medicine Door Flowers

Four medicine door flowers were discovered on Hong Kong Island between 1857 and 1858 and were recorded in George Bentham's "Flora of Hong Kong" published in 1861. It has always been considered a unique species to Hong Kong and was not found in other places for 100 years.

It was not until June 1957 that it was found again in the evergreen broad-leaved forest of Longzhou, Guangxi, and the number of plants is rare. It has now been included in the "China Red Book of Protected Plants" and the "Guangdong Province Rare and Endangered Plant Atlas".

Rhododendron Red Camellia

Rhododendron red camellia, also known as rhododendron tea, four-season tea, four-season rhododendron red camellia, or "false大头茶". The flower is like camellia leaves like rhododendron, and is known as the "giant panda in the plant world".

Rhododendron red camellia, once on the brink of extinction, is blooming in Shanghai Botanical Garden, attracting widespread attention from the botanical community.

Tiger Face Flowers

Tiger face flowers belong to the Melastomataceae family and the Tiger Face Flower genus, perennial evergreen herbs, with 5 dark red petals, a漏斗状 cup-shaped capsule, and a flowering period of approximately late November, fruiting period from March to May.

Scientific researchers from the Beijing Botanical Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences discovered a strange flower that was not recorded in the "Flora of China" during a vegetation survey on the E'huang Mountain in the 1970s.

Heavenly Empress Flowers

Heavenly Empress flowers are plants of the Magnoliaceae family and the Magnolia genus, named for their white petals, purple stamens, fascinating fragrance, and resembling heavenly girls.

Heavenly Empress flowers are rare and precious flowers, which are the surviving rare and precious flowers from the ancient Quaternary glacial period and are listed in the national endangered plant list, making them a world rare plant under key national protection.

Black Peony

Black peony is native to our country and is a flower with mythical significance, which is very rare and belongs to a rare variety. Although there are many colors of flowers in the world, black flowers are very rare.

Danxia Wutong

Danxia wutong is a unique species in the Danxia landform. It only grows on thin red sandstone soil, has a beautiful tree shape, grows rapidly, and has strong sprouting power; it has been designated as a national rare and endangered plant and a secondary key protected wild plant.

Lijiang Ladyslipper

Lijiang ladyslipper is a national first-class protected plant belonging to the Orchidaceae family and the Cypripedium genus, and is assessed as an extremely small population. Lijiang ladyslipper has been assessed as globally endangered by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species since August 29, 2013, and the population is declining.

Silver Thread Plum

In 1992, Chinese botanists discovered that the lime岩 mountain in Yixing City, Jiangsu Province, preserved the oldest angiosperm species, which is 67 million years old - the Hamamelidaceae new genus and species, silver thread plum.

The above is the small experience of China's top 10 rare flowers green plants, hoping to bring help to your life!