顾村公园荷花节开幕   2017-06-28

 

GUCUN Park in Shanghai’s northern Baoshan District will hold a lotus festival, to run from Monday until August 28.

The park has 200,000 square meters of lotus cultivation areas with 28 varieties of lotus, some of them rare, making it one of the top destinations to appreciate lotus flowers in the city, according to Zhang Zhong, the park’s director.

Some lotus can reach 2 meters in diameter, while others can be as small as a child’s fist, and the flowers appear in various colors, Zhang said.

 

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