Four new varieties of kiwifruit developed by the Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences will be available this year, according to the Changjiang Daily.

The Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has been a team dedicated to kiwifruit research since 1978. Since 2018, Hubei Province has been vigorously developing the kiwifruit industry, and up to now, the total area of kiwifruit large-scale cultivation in the province has reached more than 180,000 mu. The new varieties developed by the Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dong Hong, Jin Yan and Jin Mei, have been planted in Wuhan.

Dong Hong

Jin Yan

Jin Mei

In the coming years, the Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences will also promote the planting of some new varieties. For example, a new variety with a picking period of up to two months (late October - late December) is suitable for the development of tourism picking; the "high vitamin C" variety, containing 800-900 mg of vitamin C per 100 grams of fresh flesh, has white or gray-white hairs on the peel. There is also the sorbet kiwi, the size of a cherry tomato, which is sweet but not high in sugar, and is expected to be planted in 2025.