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ACTA HORTICULTURAE SINICA ›› 2015, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (11): 2331-2332.doi: 10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2014-0832

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A New Celosia Cultivar‘Ronghua’

LIAO Fei-xiong1,2,*,LIU Xiao-rong1,LIU Jin-mei1,LIU Xiao-fei1,WANG Dai-rong1,and LIN Yi-jian1   

  1. 1Environmental Horticulture Research Institute,Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences,Guangdong Provincial
    Key Laboratory of Ornamental Plant Germplasm Innovation and Utilization,Guangzhou Municipal Engineering and
    Technology Center for Potted Tropical Ornamentals,Guangzhou 510640,China;2College of Forestry and Landscape
    Architecture,South China Agricultural University,Guangzhou 510642,China
  • Online:2015-11-25 Published:2015-11-25

Abstract:

‘Ronghua’ is a new cultivar developed from the seeds carried by recoverable satellite of
Celosia cristata‘Zaoshui’,a traditional cultivar in Guangdong. The stable mutant lines were cultivated
through selecting for 5 generations. ‘Ronghua’cockscomb is 26.32 cm in height,30.92 cm in width,9
scarlet color crested inflorescences on average and long oval leaf with yellowish green color.
Inflorescences of this cultivar set earlier than that of the original cultivar and lasts over 60 days. The best
growing season for this cultivar is in summer in the most regions of China but around year in Southern
China for its tolerance to high temperature.

Key words: Celosia cristata, cockscomb flower, mutation in space, line selection, cultivar

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