An Investigation on the Germplasm Resources of Chinese Torreyain Pan'an County of Zhejiang Province

Pan'an County is located at th middle part of Zhejiang Province with rich Chinese Torreya (Torreya grandis)resources and a long history in cultivating Chinese Torreya.This paper reported Chinese Torreya resources in this region.The germplasm resources and the natural distribution patterns were surveyed in June to October 2002 and June to October 2003.There were two types of Chinese Torreya in this region,long seed torreya and round seed torreya,falling into 7 varieties called XiFei,DaXiangFei,DingXiangFei,LiaoYaFei,DaYuanFei,ZhongYuanFei,XiaoYuanFei.XiFei was a major cultivar,others were natural types in fact.The economic characters of some major varieties were described.Meanwhile,some suggestions at exploiting and utilizing this crop were proposed,such as strengthening the protection on Chinese Torreya resources in Pan'an County,developing and popularizing the plantation of XiFei,exploiting and utilizing the other natural types reasonably,etc.