Dongkui Myrica rubra originated from Dongao Village, Jiangkou Street, huangyan district. Since 1950s, local people have deliberately conducted artificial propagation and cultivation experiments, which have achieved great success. 1980, Dongkui Myrica rubra was popularized. From 198 1 year to 1983, Shandong 'ao Brigade raised 83,000 plants, and more than100000 plants were raised in Taizhou. In addition, Hangzhou, Zhuji, Lishui, Wencheng and other places have also introduced. Since then, Dongkui Yangmei has become more and more popular among fruit farmers.

Dongkui Myrica rubra originated in Huangyan, Zhejiang Province, and its parent tree is a seedling tree in Huangyan, Zhejiang Province, with a history of 180 years. It has the functions of beauty beauty, nourishing blood and strengthening the spleen. In the 1970s, it was named Dongkui Yangmei by a professor from Zhejiang Agricultural University, which means "the best in the East" and is known as "the king of Yangmei".

Dongkui Yangmei is the largest fruit-shaped Yangmei in Myrtaceae in the world.