By / MOOK Scenic Spots Family Travel Life Network Editorial Team
 

After Typhoons Soudelor and Dujuan, Yangmingshan has experienced several days of light rain and slightly cooler temperatures. Many visitors to Yangmingshan Park, Qianshan Park, and Hushan Green Space have discovered that some plum blossoms have already bloomed, leaving many tourists puzzled.

It turns out that the back-to-back typhoons not only caused many large trees to lose branches or topple over but also led to excessive leaf loss on deciduous species such as plum blossoms and lacebark trees under the strong winds. This affected the hormone balance within the trees, disrupting their growth cycles. Triggered by the recent cold weather, flower buds on some branches have unexpectedly emerged, allowing people to see what is normally a spring spectacle in this late autumn to early winter season.

Yangmingshan Plum Blossoms in Bloom. (Photo source / Taipei City Public Works Bureau)
 
But this is not a normal blooming—it’s just a beautiful mistake. After the typhoons, nearly half of the plum blossom trees were damaged by strong winds, broken branches, or leaf loss. This situation will inevitably also affect next year’s blooming. Visitors are reminded that the current blossoming is just a temporary physiological response, not an early start to the blooming season. When winter arrives, the plum blossoms will still enter dormancy for a period and wait for next spring’s warm weather to bloom in full glory.

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