Enjoy yellow apricot flowers on the sacred Yên Tử Mountain
Posted by admin on January 30, 2011 under Vietnam Travel in the North, Vietnam travel News, vietnam beauty | 
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It is said that the peach flower is the symbol of Tết in the north, then the yellow apricot flower is its counterpart in the south. But today, the apricot is no longer unique to the south. A rare kind of apricot was discovered on Yen Tu Mountain in Quảng Ninh province.
The yellow apricot trees blossoms on the height of 1,000 metres above sea level. In 2007, some of locals and tourists accidentally discovered this precious species of apricot trees while visiting Yên Tử Mountain. They called them “Yên Tử yellow apricot flowers” to distinguish with the apricot flowers in the south.
According to several scientists, the Yên Tử apricot trees and other species of apricot trees in the South have the same origin: they belong to Ochna integerrima (Lour. Merr.) It is questioned whether the Yen Tu apricot trees or apricot trees in the south appeared earlier.
Up to now, there is no research about the time of appearance of these apricot trees. A theory says that apricot trees at Yên Tử Mountain were transferred from the south of Việt Nam and they grow until today. Other theory says that the apricot trees at Yên Tử Mountain travelled from the mountain of southwest China then they went to the south of Việt Nam and other Indochinese countries.
Source: quangninh.gov.vn
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