A group of six new varieties of azalea have been cultivated by a research team led by Prof. ZHANG Changqin from the CAS Kunming Institute of Botany. The feat passed the acceptance check by a panel of experts under the auspices of the State Forestry Administration on 27 March.
With support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Ministry of Science and Technology and Yunan Province, the research team has been carried out studies on Alpine wild plants for over two decades, producing more than 120 varieties of such plants.
