Abstract:

Fruit crops are important cash crop with high nutrition value. The scientific nomenclature of fruit cultivars not only was of importance in the unification and the specification of fruit cultivars name, but also benefits the researches in pomology areas and the development of fruit industries. However, the nomenclature of the fruit crops was affected by region, culture and some other factors. In order to understand the situation of the nomenclature of fruit cultivars in China, and to provide more comprehensive referential data for the nomenclature in the future, we analyzed the nomenclature modes of the cultivars of apple, peach, litchi, chestnut, hazelnut, mei, hawthorn, longan, loquat, kixifruit, jujube, persimmon, citrus, lie, apricot, pear, cherry, strawberry, grapevine and banana in total of 20 important and representative fruit crops selected．

Key words: fruit crops, cultivars, nomenclature