Shanghai residents finally had the chance to enjoy the late-blooming sweet-scented osmanthus yesterday, more than a month later than normal.

The sweet-scented flowers in Guilin Park in Xuhui District, Shanghai Botanic Garden in Xuhui and Grand View Garden in Qingpu District are now all in full bloom, the first large scale blossom across the city in recent years, Shanghai Morning Post reported.

The flowers are expected to stay in full bloom for seven to 10 days, the report added. Experts anticipated the flower would bloom last weekend, but the date was postponed due to unseasonably warm weather, the report said.

This year's first flush of blossom occurred in mid-September but lasted for no more than a week.

(Shanghai Daily October 17, 2007)