Abstract:

‘Hanyuan Putao Qingjiao’is a new excellent and indigenous cold tolerance Chinese prickly ash cultivar which was derived from Hanyuan County，Sichuan Province. It has high ability of cold tolerance under low temperature condition in winter in high altitude area. Its fruit cluster looks like grape cluster and the fruit cluster length is 9.8 cm，grain number per fruit cluster is 73，thousand dry fruit peel weight is 18.91 g，volatile oil content is 7.59%，and with lasting spicy and rich aroma. The fresh production of its full bearing period crown projection area is 1.325 kg · m^-2，and it has the ability of early fruiting and high yield. It is suitable to plant in the mountain，hill and plain under dry-heat and drought or damp-heat and rainy weather condition.

Key words: green Chinese prickly ash, cold tolerance, cultivar