A New Variety Of Bougainvillea Was Sold For 280,000 Yuan. With A Planting Area Of 180,000 Mu, It Ranks First In The World.

This conference plans for a "beautiful" future. As an annual event in the bougainvillea industry, on September 23, the 7th International Bougainvillea Industry Seminar and Bougainvillea New and Excellent Variety Trade Fair was held in Yiliang County, Kunming City, Yunnan Province. 63 new and excellent varieties of bougainvillea from 5 countries and regions made their debut at the conference. In the new variety auction, the highest auction price of a single variety reached 280,000 yuan.

More than 100 industry experts, scholars and enterprise representatives from home and abroad attended the event, sharing the latest research results and cutting-edge trends in the field of bougainvillea and discussing the direction of industrial development. With a highest price of 280,000 yuan, 63 new and excellent varieties made a stunning appearance. At the auction site of new and excellent varieties of bougainvillea, a total of 36 new varieties participated in the auction. Bidders closely watched the varieties they liked and frequently raised their signs to start a fierce competition. The atmosphere at the new variety auction site was lively. In the end, the No. 5 auction item "Junlin · Shuojin Twin Towers No. 1" of Yunnan Weijunkai Garden Engineering Co., Ltd. became the most eye-catching focus of this auction transaction with the highest transaction price of 280,000 yuan. Weijunkai Company will provide grafted seedlings to the buyer. "'Junlin · Shuojin Twin Towers No. 1' is a rare golden-leaved, pink and white bicolor tower-type bougainvillea variety that combines many advantages." Xu Anze, deputy general manager of Weijunkai Company and person in charge of the new product research and development department, introduced to the "China Flower News" reporter that it not only maintains the advantages of the dwarf and dense-jointed plant type of tower-type bougainvillea, but also successfully overcomes the shortcomings of "leaves covering flowers", petite flowers and single flower color. The golden leaves are dazzling under strong light and it is a highly ornamental small potted variety. Bougainvillea 'Junlin · Shuojin Twin Towers No. 1'.

After five rounds of fierce bidding, the No. 1 auction item "Hosta" of bougainvillea bred by Cai Jiabin from Zhuori Nursery in Zhangzhou, Fujian Province through seed breeding was finally sold for 6,000 yuan. 'Hosta' is a hybrid variety with 'Kaiyata' as the female parent. The light pink bracts are elegant and unique, full of fairy air. The No. 16 auction item 'Junlin · Late Autumn' is also impressive. It not only inherits the excellent characteristic of frequent flowering of the smooth-leaved species, but also its bract flower color is interwoven with orange and red, like the layers of forests dyed in autumn, and also like the sky full of afterglow of the setting sun in the twilight, so it is named. Bougainvillea 'Hosta'. Bougainvillea 'Junlin · Late Autumn'. A total of 63 new and excellent varieties of bougainvillea were exhibited at the conference. These varieties are competing for beauty and each has its own characteristics, which made the participants feast their eyes. Experts attending the conference said one after another that this activity not only shows the latest achievements in the breeding of new varieties of bougainvillea, but also reflects the strong market demand and high recognition for high-quality horticultural varieties. It will stimulate the enthusiasm of breeders and strongly promote the development of the bougainvillea industry.

Bougainvillea 'Champagne'. Bougainvillea 'Blue Mountain'. As a special session at the opening of the conference, Pang Fu, honorary president of Yunnan Bougainvillea Industry Association, announced that the self-bred new variety of bougainvillea of Weijunkai Company was named 'Good Marriage Predestined'. This variety is carefully selected by Weijunkai Company from more than 400 self-bred new varieties. The breeding place is Yiliang County. The name is very meaningful. New variety of bougainvillea 'Good Marriage Predestined'. The deep pink bracts are numerous, huge and colorful. From 4,000 mu to 180,000 mu, keep forging ahead under prosperity. Ten years ago, there were about 60 cultivated varieties (species) of bougainvillea in my country, and the planting area was less than 4,000 mu. Now, there are more than 500 cultivated varieties (species). Hainan, Yunnan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and other places are the main producing areas. The national planting area is nearly 180,000 mu, and the annual output value is about 7.6 billion yuan. "While the bougainvillea industry is prosperous, if we want to achieve high-quality and healthy development, we still face many difficulties." At the 7th International Bougainvillea Industry Seminar, Xia Zhihui, a senior researcher of bougainvillea, said that insufficient investment in research and development funds and a shortage of professional research and development personnel have led to slow progress in research and innovation work such as new varieties and new technologies.

The lack of industry standards leads to uneven quality of bougainvillea in China. Seminar site. Xia Zhihui. The theme of this seminar is "Focus on scientific and technological breeding to bloom new varieties · Create a 'beautiful' future together". Multiple speakers discussed the future development direction of the bougainvillea industry from the perspective of breeding. "Our company is committed to collecting bougainvillea original species all over the world." Xu Anze said that with the addition of many specific genes of the original species, there will be multiple combinations of interspecific hybridization in the future, and multi-gene composite bougainvillea is expected to come out. Bougainvillea that blooms every month, has more beautiful flower colors, has a fragrance, has strong stress resistance, and even breaks through the planting boundaries between the north and the south may all appear. "From the perspective of e-commerce consumption trends, the public's aesthetic appreciation of flowers is quietly changing." Xu Yuelin, executive vice president and secretary-general of Fujian Bougainvillea Branch, said that compared with the more popular bright red and purple flower colors in the past, light-colored flowers are becoming more and more popular now. Therefore, bougainvillea breeding must also follow this trend.