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Located in China's southern city of Guangzhou, SCNU boasts blossoming flowers throughout almost the whole year around. Purple, red, white, yellow… flowers of different hue brighten up the campus with vivid colours, where you will always find one to your delight.
Pink & purple
Bauhinia variegata
A cloud of pink-white Bauhinia variegata, which stands for peace and harmony, dips over the parks in the campus. It blooms almost all year round, with March as the peak. You can spot clusters of Bauhinia variegata in the squares of Shipai and University Town campus.
Rhododendron pulchrum Sweet
The bright pale pink flowers are titled "joy of love" for the myth that it signals the advent of God of Love. By the Yanhu lake in University Town campus as well as dormitories in Shipai and Nanhai campus can you appreciate cuckooflowers from April to May.
Nerium oleander
Opening almost for the whole year and spotted on the left of the gate on the Nanhai campus, oleander buds emerge all year around. Pink oleander signs danger thus you should be careful not to pick it due to its noxious sap.
Bougainvillea spectabilis
Its flowers usually grow with three petals, each with a purple, red, pink, or orange bract beneath. Leaves are elliptical or ovate with the apex acute, slightly asymmetrical. Enthusiasm and tenacity are its language. Interspersed with bougainvillea spectabilis, buildings at SCNU are surrounded with beauty and bright colour.
Mucuna birdwoodiana
Mucuna birdwoodiana is named after the sparrow in Chinese “que”, for its leathery glossy leaves seems like a swarm of sparrows dancing by the vines. In the front of building of the School of Education on the Shipai campus grow these charming bird-like blooms during spring.
Red
Hong Kong Orchid Tree
Hong Kong orchid tree, also named Bauhinia blakeana Dunn, offers shade under the sun, with its lamp’s-foot-shaped leaves and striking purplish red flowers. While wandering around in roads and sitting by the lake in each campus, bauhinia blakeana Dunn provides a delightful view for you during winter and spring.
Kapok (Bombax ceiba)
Walking along the paths on the campus, kapok is easily discovered for its plump and bright red flowers upon towering trees.
Callistemon viminalis (Weeping bottlebrush)
Just as its name says, the way that the overlapping lance-shaped leaves hang off the branches is reminiscent of the "weeping willow". Thus, people define it as "valiant and unique" character.
Loropetalum chinense
Blossoming at its peak from April to May, it is also known as Chinese fringe flower for its bronze-red petals stretch like strips of hanging threads attached to the edge of branches.
Chinese hibiscus (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis)
When you think of Chinese Hibiscus, the first thing that comes to mind is warmth and hospitality. Its seductive flowers in shades of pink, orange and red, waving in a warm, sultry breeze recall the early summer. Throughout the year, people can appreciate it in the squares and along lanes on the Shipai campus and near the teaching buildings on the University Town and Nanhai campuses.
White &Yellow
Lotus flowers
Lotus flowers embellish the lake view in each campus from May to September. Having survived the extreme weather and being resistant to pollution, since ancient times, this hardy flower is considered as the symbol for purity, grace and beauty.
White azalea
Azaleas are beautiful plants known as the "Royalty of the Garden" because of their notoriously vibrant and colorful blossoms. You may find out it by Yanhu lake on the University Town campus as well as by the gate and library on the Nanhai campus. However, white azalea usually hides its bloom under the shadow.
Golden trumpet tree
Golden trumpet tree is a wintertime showstopper, erupting with an amazing display of yellow trumpet-shaped blooms before the tree's leaves appear in the spring. People endow it with the meaning of gratitude.
Saraca dives
According to one of the tales, Siddhartha Gautama was born under the tree and later became the Buddha who founded Buddhism to relieve the suffering of the toiling masses. When it blooms in spring, the flame-like flowers refer to hope and pleasure. Go and take a photo of it if you go through the Zijing road on the Shipai campus!
Mangifera indica
Mangifera indica is featured for its densely blooming tiny flowers in the corners of the campus. During winter and spring, you may smell the delicate fragrance of the falling golden-raindrop-like petals in the light breeze.
Source from SCNU News Center
Translated by Qiu Lezi
Proofread by Edwin Baak
Edited by Li Jianru
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