关键词: 桃, 早熟, 品种

Abstract: ‘Zhongnong Zaochun’is a new early-ripening peach cultivar selected from the crossbreeding of‘Xiongyue Jutao’and‘Chunxue’. The flowers are rose-shaped with light pink. The fruits are oval with a slightly concave apex,having an average single fruit weight of 119.1 g. The fruit skin has a pale green background color with red blush. The flesh is pale green,free of anthocyanins,soft-melting,and clingstone. It has a sweet and sour flavor,with a average soluble solids content of 10.0% and a titratable acid content of 0.54%. This cultivar exhibits early fruiting,with a fruit development period of 94 d,and the fruits ripen in early July in Huludao,Liaoning Province. The yield in the full fruiting period reaches 29 500 kg · hm^-2. It is well-suited in Huludao,Liaoning and other similar ecological regions.

Key words: peach, early-ripening, cultivar