Is it good for an orchid to bear fruit? One look at orchid fruit pictures and you will know

Most of the time, orchids bearing fruit is not very common, so some flower lovers wonder whether it is good for an orchid to bear fruit, and some flower lovers want to see orchid fruit pictures, so we might as well settle it all in one article. Under suitable conditions of temperature, humidity, light and so on, it is possible for an orchid to bear fruit, which shows that the flower lover's orchid-growing environment is quite good.

Orchid fruit pictures

However, because orchid seeds can hardly grow into orchid seedlings, this kind of fruit is basically worthless. Therefore, professional orchid growers generally will not let orchids bear fruit, and if an orchid does bear fruit, they cut it off as early as possible. This is mainly because after an orchid bears fruit, the seeds need half a year to a year to turn yellow and mature. Before they turn yellow, their ability to compete with the leaves for nutrients is especially strong, causing the leaves to become dull and lusterless or even withered and yellow.

If a flower lover wants to try their luck, they can, after the orchid fruit naturally splits open, let out seeds like dust fly out, and shake all the seeds onto the roots of the orchid plant, though the possibility of germination is very small. But as long as one seed develops into a "dragon root", then many small seedlings can grow from the dragon root.

Information: The fruit of an orchid is called lansun, and inside it are tens of thousands of dust-sized seeds. Wild orchids all reproduce this way, but orchid seeds have no endosperm, so in the early stage of germination they cannot, like the seeds of other plants, supply themselves with nutrients before growing green leaves. Therefore the survival rate is very low. It must be in an environment with orchid root fungi to grow into an orchid plant, and the huge number of seeds contained in its fruit is adapted to this.