Botanists bloom in efforts to save rare flowers
China Daily | Updated: 2019-06-21 08:10
Working at over 4,000 meters above sea level, botanist Xue Jingqi and his colleagues felt their heads throbbing with altitude sickness.
Local Tibetans guided them as they searched carefully in rocks near Shangri-La, southwest China's Yunnan province.
Then their malaise lifted as they found rare wild peonies they had been looking for.
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