Abstract:

‘Fuxiu’is a new extremely late-ripening nectarine cultivar derived from the cross ‘Ruiguang 19’×（‘Beijing Wanmi’+‘Guanhua Xuetao’et al.）. The fruit is round in shape with average fruit weight about 189.7 g and the biggest one weighs 293.9 g. The fruit skin color is covered by dark red on green-white background. The flesh is white，crisp，hard melting and taste sweet .The soluble solids content is 18.9%–25.1% and titratable acid is 0.1%. The flesh firmness without skin is 12.5 kg · cm^-2. The edible rate is 96.2%. In Yantai，the fruit mature is in late September to early October and the fruit development period is about 160 days. The cultivar is very early fruiting and high yields. The yield of 4-year-old trees is about 38.1 t · hm^-2.

Key words: nectarine, extremely late ripening, cultivar