The purple flowers and white pink flowers of Rhododendron latoucheae were selected during the flowering process including all-green stage,showing red stage,early flowering stage and full blooming stage.Determination of metabolites of Rhododendron latoucheae petals was conducted based on ultra performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry(UPLC-MS/MS).The differential metabolites were screened by orthogonal partial least squares discriminant analysis(OPLS-DA),and the key differential metabolites associated with flower color were screened by enrichment analysis using the KEGG databas...