A local green group has officially recorded a species of bauhinia not previously known to grow in Hong Kong, it has said.
Green Power first noticed the Bauhinia aperilobata, of the same family as the city’s official flower, the Bauhinia blakeana, during an ecological survey of Sha Lo Tung in Tai Po last June. The flowering plant is a vine, climbing around larger trees towards the canopy where there is more sunlight.
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