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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2025, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (10): 81-88.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb2024-0580

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Adaptability Evaluation of Early Blossom Cherry Cultivar Cerasus campanulata ‘Feihan’ in Beijing

HU Na1(), HOU Shixing1(), XIA Guodong1, CHEN Si2, ZHANG Jiming1   

  1. 1 The Administration of Yuyuantan Park, Beijing 100142
    2 Beijing Polytechnic University, Beijing 100176
  • Received:2024-09-10 Revised:2025-02-20 Online:2025-04-05 Published:2025-04-03

Abstract:

Due to red flowers and earlier florescence, as a native cherry blossom strain of Cerasus campanulate, ‘Feihan’ has been widely cultivated in the Yangtze River Basin and Fujian region, but no introduction has been recorded in Beijing. In order to evaluate its adaptability in Beijing, ‘Feihan’ from Quanjiao County Chuzhou City of Anhui Province was introduced and compared with simultaneously planted Cerasus×yedoensis ‘Somei-yoshino’ on phenophase, growth performance, morphological characteristics, field adaptability, and temperature stress resistance from 2019 to 2023, in Yingluo Garden of Yuyuantan Park in Beijing. The results showed that,the average day of the year of flower bud germination was 9.6 days earlier, the average day of the year of leaf bud germination was 6.4 days earlier, and the average full-flowering period was 5.2 days longer than that of ‘Somei-yoshino’, which were significant differences (P<0.05). The annual average branch growth and annual average DH0.8 growth were 2.10 and 1.87 times of that of ‘Somei-yoshino’, which were significant differences (P<0.05). The adaptability to extreme cold temperatures during plant dormancy period was well for both cultivars, but during flower bud development under cold spell in later spring, the effect of cold temperatures on ‘Feihan’ was less. The growth performance was affected by extreme high temperatures and extreme rainstorm during growth period for both cultivars, but the degree of influence on ‘Feihan’ was less than that on ‘Somei-yoshino’. The temperature stress resistance experiment showed that the adaptability of ‘Feihan’ under high temperature stress was stronger than that of ‘Somei-yoshino’, and the adaptability gap between two cultivars was small under low temperature stress. ‘Feihan’ can be used as an early blossom cherry cultivar in Beijing with red flowers to plant and enrich the landscape.

Key words: Cerasus campanulata ‘Feihan’, phenophase, growth performance, morphological characteristics, field adaptability, temperature stress resistance