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It is sight
to be seen at Yufengsi Lamasery on the south side of the Yulong
(Jade Dragon) Snow Mountain, some 13 km. from the county seat.
"The lamasery was built in the last year of the reign of
the Qing Emperor Kangxi and is one of the Scarlet Sect lamaseries
of Lijiang. "The riot of camellia" can be seen in the
northwest compound, one of the three in the temple, which is said
to have been built in the Chenghua era of the Ming Dynasty (1465-1487),
after the camellia tree was planted. The tree is as old as over
500 years. Around the day when spring begins, the flowers also
begin to vie in beauty and around the day when summer begins,
they fade away. During some one hundred days they come in bloom
in about 20 batches, each numbering over one thousand pieces,
the whole totaling over twenty thousand pieces. In most cases
two share a stem. The biggest flower may have nine pistils and
eighteen Petals, with a diameter like that of a large tea tray.
It is therefore reputed as "the King of Camellias on the
Globe".
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