How did the “Chinese chrysanthemum” on Chang ‘an Avenue grow? Interview with the breeders to tell the back story

Two kinds of Chinese parents, suitable for Hong Bo and the team of scientists for breeding materials, but also suitable for their idea of creating Chinese flowers, of course, chrysanthemum originated in China, but in the history of the world, the countries have excellent varieties, many of which have been introduced to China, and in the National Day era bloom. No manual control, every year on September 25, the three flowers naturally fade, to the National Day era, just in the blooming period.

However, this kind of autumn flowers originated in China, not in China, or in the spread of the sea in the future, the flowering period is widely in late October, then in the Mid-Autumn Festival before and after the National Day, how to let it flourish in the Liuhe room?

Over the years, has been engaged in chrysanthemum breeding Hong Bo introduced, “From the biological characteristics, chrysanthemum is a short-day animal, widely when the sunshine moment within 10 hours will wither, the National Day era, individual are soon after the autumn equinox, and the autumn equinox is twice a year uniform day and night nodes, day and night each 12 hours, want to see the chrysanthemum in full bloom in the National Day, It is just about to open at the beginning of the autumn equinox around September 23, or reach full flowering by September 25 at the latest.

National color peony, pink chrysanthemum, colorful rose… National Day holiday, *** square, tools Chang ‘an Street flowers, in the northeast corner of Dongdan “renovated China” flower bed and the northwest corner of Xidan “garden business circle” flower bed, hidden a lot of Chinese native new chrysanthemum, they all use Chinese native parents, after many years of cultivation, no manual control, just before and after the National Day natural wither, and to do this, The ground is the result of many years of sweat and blood of horticultural scientists.

Hong Bo and the team of scientists engaged in chrysanthemum breeding for many years, has always focused on the breeding policy can naturally wither in the National Day era, but also colorful enough chrysanthemum, after many years for the selection of the National Day flowering series of new varieties, this year’s National Day era, tools Chang ‘an Street in the two flower beds, there are three varieties they have grown.

“Flowers are like the world. Just like us today, we have both a global mind and our own Chinese temperament. So when we choose materials, we also consider creating a fine variety of our own.”

At the beginning of the breeding process, Hong Bo and his team members traveled all over the country looking for different breeding materials. In fact, they found two suitable parents, a chrysanthemum from Beijing and a wild chrysanthemum from Changbai Mountain.

From the beginning of the two types of parents, Hong Bo and his team of scientists have spent many years, and the fact that  has grown into three varieties that bloom naturally in the National Day era, the one with purple in pink is named “Hua Qingyi”, the one with red in pink is named “Chundai CAI”, and the one with purple in pink is named “amethyst”. In this year’s National Day era, they boarded the flower bed of Chang ‘an Avenue, the “Renovated China” flower bed in the northeast corner of Dongdan, people can see the figure of “flower Qingyi” and “Spring Dai color”, and in the “Garden Business Circle” flower bed in the northwest corner of Xidan, “amethyst” is also blooming there.

Chrysanthemum is a short-day organism, the change of natural photcycle adjusts the internal psychological change and morphological change of the plant, and the root of breeding is also light, “Our initial thought is to find chrysanthemums that are not so sensitive to the change of short-day light marks, and then through the process of hybridization, breeding and other compilation, to create the varieties we want.” This kind of flowers that wither the latest in the year, do not fade through the frost, the more late autumn, the more gorgeous the bloom, has always been the meaning of moral perseverance, and is also one of the flowers in the poetry articles for thousands of years. In short, it is to artificially adjust the full sunshine moment, for example, in August when the natural light scene is permanent sunshine to shade the chrysanthemum, artificial short-day, so that the chrysanthemum “mistakenly feel” to the flowering season, the initial bud, to September 25 around the initial fade.

In taming and shaping the creatures of nature, man changes their habits little by little, but at the same time, such changes do not really violate the discipline of nature, but dominate it and refresh it.”

Why do chrysanthemums bloom in the National Day era? Hongbo introduction, there are some varieties out of the ordinary, flowers are very elegant, suitable for celebrations and major festivals, but the flowering period is not suitable, who will go through the process of artificial regulation, so that the flowering period is just in the National Day era. Recently, the Beijing News reporter interviewed Hong Bo, the creator of three new varieties and professor of the Department of Appreciation Horticulture of the College of Horticulture of China Agricultural University, to tell the story of the creation of Chinese chrysanthemum.

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