Early Beauty (早佳杨梅)

Description

Early Beauty is a new variety of early-maturing black yangmei bred from the Biqi yangmei garden in Lanxi, Zhejiang Province using bud mutation. After years of cultivation and observation, it has been confirmed as a forest variety. Since 2006, Lanxi has developed this variety through seedling breeding and high-grafting replacement. In September 2013, it was approved and named by the Zhejiang Provincial Forest Variety Approval Committee. The fruit of this variety is nearly spherical, with a bright purple-black fruit surface and uniform coloring. The fruit stalk is yellow-green in color, the flesh is hard, and the flavor is strong. The average single fruit weight is 12.5 g, the fruit shape index is 0.96, the edible rate is 95.7%, the soluble solids content is 11.4%, the total sugar content is 10.3%, the total acid content is 1.17%, the citric acid content is 1.08%, and the vitamin C content is 21.7 mg·kg-1, with medium to high quality.
Early Beauty has a moderate growth and dwarfed tree body. It matures in Lanxi in late May and early June, 15 days earlier than Dongkui and more than 5 days earlier than Black Carbon. Early Beauty has large fruits and matures early, has good fruiting performance, stable yield, high resistance to wilt disease, and excellent quality.