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Flower Blooming at Poyang Lake in China 2025

Once you've visited this place in the blooming time, you'll realize this world could be pink enough even without wearing pink glasses

Best time: late October–early November

Once a year by the end of October and the beginning of November, the vast area around China's largest freshwater lake is lavishly coated with pink-purple flowers. Polygonum criopolitanum or simply knotweed flowers love the wetlands surrounding Poyang Lake. During the short flowering season, the area attracts dozens of tourists with cameras. Head out to China's south-eastern province of Jiangxi and enjoy the splendour of pink sea of flowers.

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