China is the top ten famous flowers origin, location.

November 20, 1986 to April 5, 1987, the Shanghai Garden Institute, "Garden" magazine, Shanghai TV, Shanghai Culture Press jointly organized the "Chinese traditional ten famous flowers selection" activities. At that time, the participating flowers **** 22 kinds. The selection criteria to cultivate a long history, high ornamental value, rich in national characteristics as the three basic conditions. Participants covered all walks of life, all age groups, and international attention. *** received 149,018 ballots, of which 144,334 were valid, 4,684 invalid ballots, these ballots and 114 garden and floriculture experts together with the jury ballots (standard answer), by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Branch of the Testing and Calculation Center, the computer weighting method, resulting in the order of China's top ten traditional flowers are as follows:

Rank name No. Score

1 Plum Blossom 13 905

2 Peony 20 875

3 Chrysanthemum 7 637

4 Orchid 9 476

5 Moonflower 2 361

6 Rhododendron 15 344

7 Camellia 21 306

8 Dutchman's Purse 6 263

9 Osmanthus 11 120

10 Narcissus 18 65

1. Narcissus, the flower of Fujian Province and Zhangzhou City. Whenever the beginning of winter, the flowers withered, the group of flowers are silent, but the daffodil is ice, jade, pavilion, fragrance, bring a piece of spring, has always been regarded as auspicious, beautiful, pure, noble symbol, is "the year of the Qing dynasty" of the best. It is known as the "Fairy of the Waves".

2. Rhododendron grows in Yunnan at an altitude of 800 meters -4500 meters in the mountains, mountains, low hills and fields, to the western Yunnan alpine species is the most abundant. Especially in the alpine cold and wet zone. A variety of evergreen azaleas such as yellow cup azalea, snow azalea, group flower azalea, wide bell azalea and other colors of rhododendron, often into dense rhododendron thickets and pure forests, there are even one twenty kilometers stretched as a rhododendron "sea of flowers" of the spectacle. The flowering period of azalea is different according to the climate and all kinds of different, low mountains warm and hot area in February-March open, in the middle of the mountains warm and cool area in April-June open, high mountains cold and cool area in July-August open. Because of its variety, wide distribution, the complexity and diversity of the ecological environment, rhododendron is also a variety of physical style: some of the branches and leaves, some of the dry branches of the hundred dry; some of the lush, handsome and upright, and some of the curved as a gnarled dragon, strong and elegant. Its flower color is more colorful, colorful: red like fire, golden, crystal blue such as treasure, or with spots with points, or with stripes with blocks, pink, magenta, orange-yellow, mauve, yellow with red, red with white, white with green, it is really a thousand variations, there are no surprises. Some of the heavy makeup and colorful clothes, some light onyx, some of the lips and teeth, some fragrant and refreshing, really have their own style and elegance.

3. Osmanthus produced in southwestern China, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangdong and Hubei provinces, India, Nepal, Cambodia is also distributed from the "Mid-Autumn Festival" to the end of March of the following year are open one after another

4. May final flower, bloom period of 1 to March. But some varieties of camellias bloom earlier, some bloom later, in general, can last 7 to 8 months long. Camellia long-lasting flowering period, so that it has become a good ornamental plants, but also become a very rare winter nectar plant in the warm areas of the south.

5. Chrysanthemum. The chrysanthemum is proud of its frosty color and fragrant with autumn dew. (Main places of origin: Beijing, Shanghai)

6. Moonflower blossoms and falls without interruption, spring to spring is not related! (Main places of origin: Beijing, Changzhou)

7. The color of the lotus flower is unparalleled in the world, for whom is the fragrance transmitted? (Main places of origin: Wuhan, Hangzhou)

8. The plum blossom is a kind of a flower that is not only a good choice, but also a good choice for the future of the world. (Main places of origin: Hangzhou, Wuxi)

9. Folded stems can be worn, into the room to become fragrant. (The main place of origin: Guangzhou)

10. Peony. It is suspected that it is made by the goddess of Luochuan, and it breaks the sunlight in a thousand dainty forms. (Main places of origin: Luoyang and Heze)

Flowering period: 1. Plum blossoms: the flowering period in the Yangtze River Basin is from December to March of the following year. 2. Peony: the flowering period is from late April to early May. 3. Chrysanthemums: early chrysanthemums in September; autumn chrysanthemums in October and November; late chrysanthemums in December and January of the following year; and there are also may chrysanthemums and july chrysanthemums. 4. Orchids: spring orchids bloom from February to March, and the flowering periods of other orchids vary according to the varieties. Orchids: spring orchids in February-March, other orchids depending on the variety of flowering period, May-December can be seen flowers 5. moon season: longer flowering period, if the light can be enough to see flowers every month, the peak period of May-November 6. azalea: the flowering period of April-May 7. camellia: the flowering period of 2-3 months 8. lotus: flowering period of June-September, daily morning and evening closure of the 9. osmanthus: the flowering period of September-October 10. Narcissus: late December to March