International Cultivar Registration for Ornamental Crabapple

The Beijing Botanical Garden, with Dr. Guo Ling serving as the official registrar, was selected as the International Cultivar Registration Authority for Malus by the International Society for Horticultural Science, Commission for Nomenclature and Cultivar Registration in 2014.  The crabapple garden in Beijing Botanical garden awarded the Garden of Excellence of China 2012–13 by Chinese Association of Parks. Eighty-two species and cultivars in the Malus genus were introduced. The tree’s formal characteristics, cold hardness, drought and flood tolerance, and resistance to pest and disease have been investigated. Genetic relationships among the species and cultivars have been elucidated by gathered molecular data. A system for evaluation has been developed. ‘Radiant’ and other crabapple cultivars have been demonstrating planted in Northern China. New cultivars were bred.