What kind of leaf shape is considered beautiful in Cymbidium ensifolium?
Lan Shangling, fragrance comes first in orchids! One, the pseudobulb base (the petiole part is the leaf foot) should be slender and upright, not sprouting randomly or scattering, that is what makes it neat and elegant. Like a tall beauty with long legs. Two, the middle of the leaf should be firm and straight (the middle part of the leaf blade is the leaf waist) and the leaf tip should droop. Being a person is the same, the waist must be firm and straight, that is how one stays neither haughty nor humble....
Zero, fragrance comes first in orchids!
One, the leaf foot of the orchid (the petiole part is the leaf foot) should be slender and upright, not sprouting randomly or scattering, that is what makes it neat and elegant. Like a tall beauty with long legs.
Two, the leaf waist should be firm and straight (the middle part of the leaf blade is the leaf waist) and the leaf tip should droop. Being a person is the same, the waist must be firm and straight, that is how one stays neither haughty nor humble. With backbone, not a Liu Xiahui, and when the tip droops it is like a gentleman being courteous, elegant and moving.
Three, the leaves should be thick, soft and glossy, not wilting under strong light, the flowers should sit level with or above the leaves, the flower shoulders should be level shoulders, not heavily drooping, so that they look spirited (I personally have little interest in petal-shape plain-color flowers), the stem should be small so the flowers look large, swaying gracefully in a gentle breeze.
Four, the flowers should be green and white; although white flowers are eye-catching and dazzling, I personally do not like them, I like them like Cymbidium goeringii, green and white, like jade, that is what is eternal, naturally pleasing to look at, fragrant and understated.
There is one more thing to say, I prefer lively and graceful flowers, and as for some petal-shape plain-color flowers that are as rigid as paper cutouts, none of them catch my eye; the above are my standards for selecting plain-color Cymbidium ensifolium, and the flowers that meet my standards are only a few, such as Ruanjian Bai or the new flower Chuixie Huang.
