YELLOW APRICOT Flower

Yellow Apricot Flower ("Hoa Mai")

If the peach flower is the symbol of Tet (i.e. Lunar New Year) in the north, then the yellow apricot flower is its counterpart in the South. The yellow apricot flower belongs to the family of hoang mai (meaning “yellow apricot” in Chinese), a forest plant in its original habitat. The trunk and sprigs of the yellow apricot flower are suppler than those of the peach plant. The flowers grow in bunches and have stalks that hang loosely near the branches at the side of the leaves. The flowers are yellow and their scent is modestly secretive. The leaves of the yellow apricot flower fall in the winter, but modestly lush up during the prime growing season. Relative prized for their beautiful yellow blossoms, the splendid blossom continues its life cycle by rendering blossom-like dark seedpods surrounded by a single layer of deep red leaflets at the pods' base to look like a gorgeous red blossom thereafter that can lasts for as long as 4-6 weeks!

There are varieties of yellow apricot, including mai tu qui (apricot of all seasons) and nhi do mai, which begin to produce red colored fruit after blossoming. The plant can be planted in gardens, in flowerbeds (zones 8+), or in potted containers to be marvelously displayed as beautiful flowering bonsais similar to what you see in photograph here. Our plant stock for this item have been organically grown from seed and not established thru cuttings to ensure a strong root system development from onset. Plants are of a nice size approximately 8-12" (most on the larger size) when shipped in 4-6" containers.