The City Flower of Shanghai - White Magnolia

The city flower of Shanghai is white magnolia, which blossoms extraordinarily early. When winter waned and spring comes, the white magnolia has already in full bloom before Qingming Festival, i.e. Tomb-visiting Day. The white magnolia has big flowers spotlessly white and blooming upwards, symbolizing a kind of the spirit rising in great vigor. Therefore, white magnolia has embedded in the mind of Shanghai people as a beautiful icon.