One of the top ten famous flowers in China. Among all ornamental flowers and trees, it can be said that flowers and leaves are beautiful, suitable for ground planting and potted plants, and are most widely used. Bai Juyi praised: "When I am at leisure, I have two branches in my hand. If I look closely, it doesn't look like anything in the world. This thing in the flower is a stone, and the peony is a whip. " In the natural distribution of rhododendrons in the world, no country or region can match China's rhododendrons in species and quantity, and China is a treasure house of rhododendron resources in the world! Today, there are as many as seven or eight cities in Jiangxi, Anhui and Guizhou where azaleas are provincial flowers and designated as city flowers.

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