香港市花的确定本世纪60年代以前，香港并无法定的市花。在30年代出版的（香港年鉴）扉页上，刊登了一幅绣球彩图，作为香港代表花卉。因为当时外国人聚居的太平山顶，遍植绣球（又称为洋绣球花）。四五十年代，有人认为姜花可作为香港市花。但二者都未正式为港人所认同。直至1 Hong Kong Flower Determination Before the 60s of this century, Hong Kong did not have a legal flower market. On the front page of the Hong Kong Yearbook published in the 1930s, a hydrangea picture was published as the flower of Hong Kong. Because at that time the foreigners gathered in the Peak, the planted hydrangea (also known as Western hydrangea). In the 1940s and 1950s, some people think that ginger flower can be used as a flower in Hong Kong. However, neither of them is officially recognized by the people of Hong Kong. Until 1