It is an traditional farming industry to plant chayote in Youxi County,Fujian Province. The chayote with green skin,planted by caret-shaped bridge village in Youxi County,has high nutritional value and a long history of cultivation. Comparing with other chayotes,it has advantages of early maturity,high yield and high plant effiency,recognized as“the organic foods,the A level product”by the China Organic Foods Development Center. In the favor of consumer,the product is sold to several big or media-sized cities. The prospects to devel-op chayote is broad at high elevation mountainous area in Fujian Province. This paper described the botanical characters and cultivation technical of chayote.