Detailed Introduction to the Cymbidium sinense Variety 'Huangjin Wandai Fu'

The so-called "Huangjin XX" (Huangjin Yanglao, Huangjin Shimen, Huangjin Dama, Huangjin Wandai) should refer to the golden-centered variegation of a given flower, which originated earliest from the deep-yellow centered variegation of "Yanglao." Up to the present, a requirement for a yellow head has also been added, but since the variegation appearance still does not reach the level of pine-leaf variegation, it is simply called golden centered variegation.

How long does it take for Wandai Fu to turn into Huangjin Wandai? I think this question is hard to answer, because the evolution of line variegation is not inevitable along a single selection and cultivation path. What I mean is that if you hope to cultivate an ordinary pot of Wandai Fu into Huangjin Wandai Fu through your own efforts, I can only tell you that it will not necessarily succeed, because the various line-variegation strains were developed through many years of selection and breeding by large numbers of line-variegation enthusiasts. It is precisely because different line-variegation enthusiasts worked under different cultivation environments and cultivation methods that today's diverse expressions of various types of line-variegated Cymbidium sinense have been developed.