Rare snow lotus blooms in NW China's Tianshan Mountains
Channel: 中国新闻社
Date: 2022-07-26

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Rare snow lotus flowers bloom at the top of the mountain in the Snow Lotus Reserve in Tianshan Mountains, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

Saussurea involucrate, also called Snow Lotus, is known as the "holy flower", distributed in China, Russia and Kazakhstan. Snow Lotus is a national second-class protected wild plant in China, which grows in the slopes, valleys and crevices at an altitude of 2,400-3,470 meters in Tianshan Mountains.