Mild climate and agreeable temperature have turned Xishuangbanna in southwest China's Yunnan Province into a kingdom of countless plant species where flowers of different shapes and colors bloom all year long. 

Here is our December collection.

Cardinal creeper (Ipomoea horsfalliae).

Goldflower tea (Camellia petelotii).

Longfruit bombax (Bombax insigne var. tenebrosum).

Flamtree (Spathodea campanulata).

Bois bete (Dombeya wallichii).

Chinese-hat-plant (Holmskioldia sanguinea).

(All photos are contributed by Mo Haibo, who earned his master's degree in botany and now works at Xishuangbanna Botanic Garden. Botanic photography has gradually become a way for him to express his affection for plants – his obsession since childhood.)