In Kunming Chenggong Dounan Bonsai Flower Ecological Park, this year's newly listed new ornamental alpine rhododendron "Red Pink Lady" blooms with gorgeous flowers, attracting many citizens to come to watch, and has also become a new upstart in this year's high-end rhododendron potted flower sales market.
It is understood that the alpine rhododendron "red pink lady" developed and promoted by the Garden Flower Center of the Flower Research Institute of the Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences is a new excellent variety of hybrid breeding between the Yunnan alpine rhododendron and the Belgian rhododendron, which has the characteristics of evergreen, strong adaptability, beautiful flowers and leaves, gorgeous flowers, and natural flowering period of up to 3-4 months. Due to the use of the soilless cultivation method of rapid flowering of hybrid offspring seedlings, the flowering time is shortened by 1-2 years compared with the traditional planting method, which shortens the entire breeding period of the hybrid offspring of alpine rhododendron "Red Pink Lady" by 2-4 years, greatly shortens the breeding cycle of new varieties of alpine rhododendron, and is also more conducive to mass production and rapid market sales through tissue culture propagation.
In recent years, the Flower Research Institute of Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences has focused on the breeding of new garden plant varieties, seedling production, sales and planting technology promotion, relying on the rich flower species resources advantages of Yunnan, further increasing the research and development of new products and the transformation of scientific research results of characteristic garden flowers, especially in the introduction and screening of characteristic garden plants at home and abroad, the selection and breeding of new varieties and seedlings, etc., which provides a strong support for the development of high-end garden seedling industry in Yunnan.
Yunnan network reporter Yang Zheng photographic report