Contrasted with 2 different Loropetalum chinense ecotypes,fourteen Loropetalum chinense var.rubrum materials representing almost all the types could be were analyzed by RAPD in this paper.Fifty-five random primers produced 632 steady amplified bands in total,among them 427 bands were polymorphic.Strong and clear bands were scored for their presence or absence in a binary data matrix.Nei's similarity coefficients and genetic distances were calculated by NTSYS-pc software,and principal components analysis was done by SAS software.The result demonstrated that L.chinense var.rubrum is a mutant of ...