Enjoy yellow apricot flowers on the sacred Yen Tu Mountain

Posted by admin on January 28, 2011 under News | Be the First to Comment

It is said that the peach flower is the symbol of Tet in the north, then the yellow apricot flower is its counterpart in the south. But today, the apricot is no longer unique to the south. A rare kind of apricot was discovered on Yen Tu Mountain in Quang Ninh province.

The yellow apricot trees blossoms on the height of 1,000 metres above sea level. In 2007, some of locals and tourists accidentally discovered this precious species of apricot trees while visiting Yen Tu Mountain. They called them “Yen Tu yellow apricot flowers” to distinguish with the apricot flowers in the south.

According to several scientists, the Yen Tu apricot trees and other species of apricot trees in the South have the same origin: they belong to Ochna integerrima (Lour. Merr.) It is questioned whether the Yen Tu apricot trees or apricot trees in the south appeared earlier.

Up to now, there is no research about the time of appearance of these apricot trees. A theory says that apricot trees at Yen Tu Mountain were transferred from the south of Vietnam and they grow until today. Other theory says that the apricot trees at Yen Tu Mountain travelled from the mountain of southwest China then they went to the south of Vietnam and other Indochinese countries.

Source: TW