Excuse me, why is the city flower of Shanghai Magnolia grandiflora? Besides being suitable for planting in Shanghai, is there any special significance?

After the vote of Shanghai residents and the deliberation and approval of the Standing Committee of Shanghai Municipal People's Congress, it was decided that Magnolia grandiflora was the flower of Shanghai. Magnolia symbolizes the pioneering spirit. In the climate of Shanghai, magnolia blooms very early. Winter goes and spring comes, before Tomb-Sweeping Day comes to bloom. Magnolia is big and white, and it opens upwards.

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Few people know that cotton was once the city flower of Shanghai. According to "Shanghai Garden", after Shanghai was founded in the Republic of China 16 (1927), some people in the society thought that Shanghai should have its own city flower. On October 24th of the Republic of China 18 10, the Municipal Social Security Bureau took lotus, rose and other flowers as candidate varieties of city flowers, and later added cotton, peony and osmanthus. In the end, * * * recovered more than 1.7 million votes. Unexpectedly, 5496 cotton tickets ranked first and were elected as the flower of Shanghai.

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Baidu encyclopedia-flower of Shanghai