After a summer shower, elegant zinnia flowers, fresh and vivid and with a decoration of raindrops, are displayed in the Tongdao Dong Autonomous County in Huaihua City, central China's Hunan Province.

The elegant zinnia, as the name states, produce showy and purple flowers between spring and fall.

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