National flower of the Republic of China

Huangmei county (Yellow Mei) in Hubei features a 1,600-year-old plum tree from the Jin Dynasty which is still flowering.

[4] The mudan (Paeonia suffruticosa) was referred to as the "national flower" of China during the Ming and Qing era.

[5] The Ministry of Finance (MOF) had also requested the Central Executive Committee (CEC) of the Kuomintang (Nationalist Party) to designate the National Flower for the making of new currency.

The Nationalist Government issued a general order on 8 February 1929, adopting the plum blossom in various state emblem designs.

The plum blossom was thus recognised by the Executive Yuan as the National Flower of the Republic of China (the country's effective jurisdiction was reduced to Taiwan after the Chinese Civil War)[7] as an established fact.