Ancient plum trees are especially abundant at places in the Yangtze River basin such as Wuxing, Hangzhou's West Lake and Guiji (which straddled modern Zhejiang and Jiangsu, and was perhaps where the tattooed ambassador of Yue plucked that plum branch).
長江流域的吳興、西湖、會稽（紋身越使摘的那顆梅樹？）等地，尤多古梅。