Plant is professed to bring a year of good fortune when it blooms during the Chinese new year which falls in late January or early February. Every year at this time the plant flushes with masses of buttercup like blossoms. The sepals later enlarge and turn a brilliant crimson while the seeds go from green to glossy black. At this stage the resemblance to the Disney character is uncanny.
In Vietnam, due to the beauty of the tree and its flowers, the word mai is used to name girls. The largest hospital in Hanoi is named Bach Mai (white plum blossom) another hospital in Hanoi is named Mai Huong (the scent of plum), situated in Hong Mai (pink plum blossom) street. Hoang Mai (yellow plum blossom) is the name of a district in Hanoi. Bach Mai is also a long and old street in Hanoi. All these places are located in the south part of Hanoi, where, in the past, many P. mume trees were grown. |
Due to its characteristics, beautiful flowers and a tall, slender tree, mai is used to describe the beauty of women in expressions crane's body, plum's bones, as slender as a plum tree.
and won Princess after seeing a parallel couplet. the name of the princess, but also means a branch of mai, implying a beautiful girl. |
