What orchid variety is Taizhou Hechunlan

    Regarding this flower, I have heard and seen some story texts. In orchid circles, three names circulate: "Taizhou He, Wushi He, Huan He." Setting the stories aside and judging the flower on its own merits, in the 1980s, being able to discover such a new lotus-type variety of Chunlan was truly rare. After all, "A thousand plums and ten thousand narcissus, but a single lotus is nowhere to be found." Taizhou He's outer three petals are short and broad, with a narrowed base and flared corners, rounded-fan-shaped petals, and a large round tongue. The five petals have red vein lines. When it blooms, the flower scape is relatively tall, the bracts are purplish-red, the leaves are upright, and the texture is thick.

    Taizhou is a region where orchid activities flourish today. Various rare and exotic varieties are abundantly collected by local orchid enthusiasts. Taizhou He has been passed down from the 1980s to the present and still retains the elegance of a prized variety of its generation. More and more people are cultivating it!