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| [[Image:Hong Kong Orchid tree flower.jpg|thumb|Hong Kong floral and tree emblem.]] | | #REDIRECT [[Bauhinia × blakeana]] |
| The commonly called '''Hong Kong Orchid tree''', '''Chinese Camel’s Toe Orchid''', '''Chinese Hong Kong Orchid''', or the '''Bauhinia Tropical Orchid''' ''(Bauhinia blakeana)'',<ref>{{GRIN | ''Bauhinia'' × ''blakeana'' | access-date = 15 December 2017}}</ref> is a [[Hybrid (biology)#In plants|hybrid]] [[legume|leguminous]] tree of the [[genus]] ''[[Bauhinia]]''. It has large thick leaves and striking purplish red flowers. The fragrant, orchid-like flowers are usually {{Convert|10|to|15|cm|in}} across, and bloom from early November to the end of March. Although now cultivated in many areas, it originated in [[Hong Kong]] in 1880 and apparently all of the cultivated trees derive from one cultivated at the [[Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens|Hong Kong Botanical Gardens]] and widely planted in Hong Kong starting in 1914.<ref name="lau" /> It is referred to as '''Bauhinia''' in non-scientific literature though this is the name of the genus. It is sometimes called the '''Hong Kong orchid''' ({{lang|zh-Hant-HK|香港蘭}}). In Hong Kong, it is most commonly referred to by its Chinese name of "{{lang|zh-Hant-HK|洋紫荊}}". So therefore within the ''Autonomous Constituent'' country of [[Hong Kong]] ''(HKSAR)'' it is both the designate '''Subnational flower and tree of the Nationalist Hongkongese [[Devolution|Devolved Home-State-Local Rule]]'''{{refn|name=Gcounts|group=n|''“The Official designated subnational Hongkongese floral & plant insignia and Awarded Botanic emblem of the [[Hong Kong]]” respectively''}}.
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| ==Usage as an emblem==
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| [[File:HKUrbanCouncil.svg|thumb|''Bauhinia'' × ''blakeana'' was adopted as the [[National emblem|floral emblem]] of [[Hong Kong]] by the [[Urban Council, Hong Kong|Urban Council]] in 1965.]]
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| [[File:Urban Council of Hong Kong Armorial Bearings.png|thumb|Historical Urban Council of Hong Kong armorial bearings, granted by the [[College of Arms]] in 1979. The council was abolished on the 31st of December 1999.]]
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| [[Image:Flag of Hong Kong.svg|thumb|right|The [[flag of Hong Kong]] Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China in 1997.]]
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| Since 1997 the flower appears on Hong Kong's coat of arms, [[Flag of Hong Kong|its flag]] and [[Hong Kong dollar|its coins]]; its Chinese name has also been frequently shortened as 紫荊/紫荆 (洋 ''yáng'' means 'foreign' in Chinese, and this would be deemed inappropriate by the PRC government{{cn|date=July 2020}}), although 紫荊/紫荆 refers to another genus called ''[[Cercis]]''. A [[statue]] of the plant has been erected in [[Golden Bauhinia Square]] in Hong Kong.
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| Although the flowers are bright pinkish purple in colour, they are depicted in white on the Flag of Hong Kong.
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| [[Hong Kong Airlines]] uses BAUHINIA as its [[Aviation call signs|callsign]].
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| The [[endemic (ecology)|endemic]] plant of [[Hong Kong]] was introduced to [[Taiwan]] in 1967. In 1984 it was chosen to be the city flower of [[Chiayi|Chiayi City]], in southwestern [[Taiwan]].
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| {{Chinese|t=洋紫荊|s=洋紫荆|j=joeng4 zi2 ging1|y=yeung<sup>4</sup> ji<sup>2</sup> ging<sup>1</sup>|p=yáng zǐ jīng|ci={{IPAc-yue|j|oeng|4|-|z|i|2|-|g|ing|1}}}} | |
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| [[Category:Bauhinia|blakeana]]
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