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What are the characteristics of Songchun orchid? Detailed introduction with pictures and text

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Many flower lovers want to know the characteristics of Songchun orchid. Songchun is a new variety among Chinese orchids, with a free and easy plant form and pure floral fragrance. Because its flowers generally bloom in late spring, carrying the meaning of seeing spring off, it is named "Songchun" (seeing off spring). Songchun, an orchid variety with relatively scarce germplasm resources....

Many flower lovers want to know the characteristics of Songchun orchid. Songchun is a new variety among Chinese orchids, with a free and easy plant form and pure floral fragrance. Because its flowers generally bloom in late spring, carrying the meaning of seeing spring off, it is named “Songchun”. Songchun, an orchid variety with relatively scarce germplasm resources.

1. The leaves of Songchun orchid are relatively soft in texture, gradually tapering upward from the middle, without a rapid tip, like a rice-field eel's tail, commonly known as “rice-field eel tail”.

Songchun leaves: (Note ~ after training and cultivation, Songchun plants are somewhat shorter than freshly collected wild plants)

Songchun orchid characteristics (pictures and text)

2. The leaf base of Songchun is wide, with a ring, and the leaves are numerous. Generally, a mature plant has 8~15 leaves, with neat bases clasping together, arranged in a fan-shaped row, commonly known as “goose-feather bases”. Songchun leaf base:

3. The roots of Songchun are uniform in thickness and forked. Spring roots: (Note ~ home-grown Songchun roots are somewhat thicker and shorter than freshly collected wild plants)

4. Songchun leaf buds and flower buds are mostly plain-colored, but plain-colored flowers are extremely rare!

5. The last point is the most important~~ Cymbidium faberi leaves have obvious or not-so-obvious white or yellow veins (among beginner orchid lovers in non-producing areas, some even mistake them for striped variegation), while Songchun leaves are fresh and elegant in color, without

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