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Flamegold t
old trreeAppropriately named native tree with large yellow and red blooms
in autumn. It grows in lowland forests, and it's widely planted on city streets as it
does well in polluted air.
YouutongThe large white flowers of the youtong tree bloom all over the north in
April. Around the Sanxia Interchange on Fwy 3, entire mountainsides go near-white
in good years.
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aleaNative species bloom from low to high altitudes from April
to June.
Forrmosa lily
a lilyOne of the tallest of lilies, with long trumpet-like flowers. Blooms wild
all over Taiwan twice a year in spring and autumn.
OrrcchiidThere are many wild species but large farms around Tainan and Pingtung
also grow these delightful flowers. Taiwan is, in fact, the world's largest orchid ex-
porter.
LottuusBaihe in Tainan County has a two-month-long summer festival devoted to
this flower.
CCherrrry blo
y blossomCherry trees bloom in great numbers in February and March in
Yangmingshan, Wulai and Alishan Forest Recreation Area.
Calla lily
alla lilyThese beautiful long-stemmed white lilies bloom in large fields in Yang-
mingshan in spring. There's even a festival for them.
Plum blo
Plum blossomThe national flower (at least for the Kuomintang) blooms in Febru-
ary in orchards all over the island at midaltitudes. Intoxicating scent.
Buuttterrfly g
fly giingerrA hopeless romantic, the white flower of the native butterfly ginger
gives off its strongest scent at night. Blooms from spring to autumn all over the is-
land.
Awn g
ilverrgrrass))A tall swaying grass, with light, airy blooms. Its blooming
signals the end of autumn in the north. The Caoling Historic Trail is one of the best
places to see entire hillsides covered in it.
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Alpiine flo
e flowerrsTaiwan has dozens of petite flowers that splash a bit of colour above
the treeline all summer long.
Robert Kelly, Coordinating Author
Foothills (Tropical Zone): 0-500m
Most of Taiwan's original tropical forests have long been cleared to make room for tea
fields, orchards, and plantations of Japanese cedar, camphor and various bamboos. Intact
