Abstract:Abstract:The research did research on genetic diversity of 12 Liquidambar formosana which has good ornamental germplasm on the basis of ISSR analysis. From 12 different leaf samples extracted DNA, the authors designed an orthogonal optimization experiment that was suitable for propagating ISSA of germplasm. In the experiment, we selected out 127 amplified bands from 19 ISSR primers, of which 94 bands(74.01%)were polymorphic. Then we used the data to analyze the genetic diversity and similarity on the basis of ISSR analysis. The results showed that the genetic similarity of samples of No.4 and No.11 was 0.83, and other samples' genetic similarity differed from 0.61 to 0.79. So it was clearly concluded that good varieties had genetic differences and genetic diversity.