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Xishen 2018 sends New Year wishes, wishing everyone a Happy New Year!
Xishen is a classic variety of Cymbidium goeringii, very much worth growing, and its fragrance is good too. This is the 2018 bloom, shared with fellow orchid growers!
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What is the relationship between orchid stem elongation and temperature difference and light?
Yingchun (Welcoming Spring), discovered in 1989 at Lanting, Shaoxing. Selected, bred and named by Ye Zhiqing. This flower is excellent in flower shape, flower color, flower keeping quality and flower stem height; only the leaves are slightly long. Yingchun is not widely circulated among orchid enthusiasts, and it can even be said to be little known, which is quite a pity!
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A Brief Introduction to the Variety Characteristics of Chunlan 'Bashi Mei'
Bashi Mei was discovered in the wild around 2000 in Lishui, and it holds its flowers well with a beautiful central structure - a rare and excellent mei-type orchid, though its shortcoming is that the flowers are small! It is said that the owner bought it from an orchid farmer for 80 yuan, hence the name Bashi Mei.
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Shenhe Chunlan (also known as Shengshi He) Variety Introduction
Shenhe is Shengshi He, discovered in Zhoushan by Wang Guifu and bloomed in 2007. It was originally named Shengshi He locally, and later acquired by the prominent grower Xiang Zhigang of Linhai, who named it Shenhe. It won the Special Gold Award at the National Orchid Exhibition. Shenhe flowers have shorter and rounder petal proportions than Meifen He flowers; Shenhe plants are small with flower spikes rising above the leaves, while Meifen plants have slightly larger, thinner leaves, but their flowers have full centers and emerald color. This...
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Introduction to the characteristics of the Chunlan Guanshi Xin Die variety
This flower and the Nanbei Sanxing both come from Daguanshi Village in Baoshan, and several Sanxing Die with similar blooms have also appeared there. The difference lies in whether they have leaf variegation, and whether it is in dotted-line form or block-line form. This flower is the best one from Daguanshi; when grown strong it has block-line leaf variegation, so it is also the most expensive of the Guanshi Xin Die.
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What is the relationship between bud withering and vernalization?
A colored-flower Cymbidium goeringii, a pity it has no fragrance.
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Illustrated guide to the common care methods for Four Seasons Orchid, Jianlan (Cymbidium ensifolium), and Shilan
1. Light control and cooling: Jianlan grows best at an annual average temperature between 15-23°C. Summer temperatures are hot, so use a 70-80% plastic shade net to cool things down. 2. Promoting cooling under high temperatures: for the high temperatures caused by overly strong light, add more layers and density of shading to encourage cooling; in summer and autumn, when light is strong, the air is stuffy and hot, and temperatures are high...
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A Detailed Guide to Distinguishing Large-Leaf Cold Orchid from Fine-Leaf Cold Orchid
Yifeng Orchid Garden Large-leaf cold orchid and fine-leaf cold orchid are not distinguished by the length and width of the leaves (that is to say, among large-leaf types there are also those with small, fine leaves, and among fine-leaf types tall plants can also appear), but rather by whether the petals (especially the side petals) have a contrasting border, whether the base color of the lip is white, and whether the orchid roots are thick and sturdy...
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Chunlan cultivar Chuncheng Mei, also known as Lvgeng Shiyuan or Cuiyuan Chunshen Mei
What Wang Shuping called "Cuiyuan" with "green-stalked ten-round petals," we commonly call "Chuncheng Mei" or "Chunshen Mei." A Chunlan plum-petal cultivar, selected in Ningbo, Zhejiang in the early years of the Republic of China. The sepals are round with tightly rolled edges, green in color with flying shoulders. But it often blooms prematurely by drawing on spring. Petal type: plum petal. History: In the early years of the Republic of China, a Shaoxing orchid farmer selected it in Ningbo, and after it spread to Shanghai it was called "Chunshen...
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What variety of orchid is Xishi Huilan?
The Huilan su-wai-die Xishi was bought by the couple Changjiang from a mountain farmer. When the two of them saw the flower, they immediately called me and said there was a flower whose bud, when peeled open, showed a plain (su) center with outer butterfly (wai die) markings, but the plant was in very poor condition with only a few damaged leaves... the flower farmer was asking a high price... several local small orchid traders had already been there... but none dared to buy it. As soon as I heard the situation, I was delighted in my heart,...
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