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Introduction to the Apricot Variety Yiwufeng and Its Main Characteristics

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Declaring unit: Hebei Provincial Committee for the Examination and Approval of Improved Forest Tree Varieties. Approval status: approved in 1993 by the National Crop Variety Examination and Approval Committee. Variety registration number: GS140ll-1992. Variety origin: a local variety from the Zhangjiakou region of Hebei. Characteristics: the crown is round-headed, the tree vigor is medium, and the trunk is brownish-purple with rough bark. The leaves are dark green and heart-shaped; the branches are slender and dense with short internodes, readily forming clustered branch groups. The bearing capacity is large and concentrated, and the fruit is egg-shaped with pale yellow flesh and a sour-astringent taste. 5-6 kg of fruit yields 1 kg of pits, each kg of pits contains 520-600 pits, and the kernel yield is 33%-36%; the almond is protruding-branched and heart-shaped, about 1600 kernels per kg, and the kernel skin is brownish-yellow. It bears fruit early, mainly on short fruit branches and bouquet-like fruit branches. It has good productivity and is drought-tolerant and cold-tolerant. It is a kernel-use apricot; the kernel is sweet and fragrant, of excellent quality, with a high kernel yield.

Declaring unit: Hebei Provincial Committee for the Examination and Approval of Improved Forest Tree Varieties.

Approval status: approved in 1993 by the National Crop Variety Examination and Approval Committee.

Variety registration number: GS140ll-1992.

Variety origin: a local variety from the Zhangjiakou region of Hebei.

Characteristics: the crown is round-headed, the tree vigor is medium, and the trunk is brownish-purple with rough bark. The leaves are dark green and heart-shaped; the branches are slender and dense with short internodes, readily forming clustered branch groups. The bearing capacity is large and concentrated, and the fruit is egg-shaped with pale yellow flesh and a sour-astringent taste. 5-6 kg of fruit yields 1 kg of pits, each kg of pits contains 520-600 pits, and the kernel yield is 33%-36%; the almond is protruding-branched and heart-shaped, about 1600 kernels per kg, and the kernel skin is brownish-yellow. It bears fruit early, mainly on short fruit branches and bouquet-like fruit branches. It has good productivity and is drought-tolerant and cold-tolerant. It is a kernel-use apricot; the kernel is sweet and fragrant, of excellent quality, with a high kernel yield.

Cultivation points: propagated by grafting, planted in rectangular arrangement, with 44-110 plants per mu. Cultivation and management are the same as for other fruit trees; after planting, the trunk is headed at 60-80 cm, the tree form is the natural round-headed shape, mainly by heading back and supplemented by thinning and light pruning. Timely control of pests and diseases.

Suitable range: cultivated in Hebei, Beijing, Tianjin, Shanxi, Liaoning and Inner Mongolia, among other provinces and municipalities.

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