Introduction to the Characteristics and Care Methods of the Wanding Cymbidium goeringii Variety
Discovered in February 2007 in the Yangsan Zhai Scenic Area, Dongxixi Township, Huoshan County, Anhui Province. Also known as Aihe, it was found by a mountain farmer surnamed Wang and sold to Wang Yonghong, and after Yin Xuesen purchased two seedlings from Wang, he named it. When collected, three seedlings with one old pseudobulb were taken down the mountain, bearing one scape with two flowers, a standard lotus-petal flower with excellent fragrance. In the winter of the same year it was published in Anhui Lanhui. This flower...
Discovered in February 2007 in the Yangsan Zhai Scenic Area, Dongxixi Township, Huoshan County, Anhui Province. Also known as Aihe, it was found by a mountain farmer surnamed Wang and sold to Wang Yonghong, and after Yin Xuesen purchased two seedlings from Wang, he named it. When collected, three seedlings with one old pseudobulb were taken down the mountain, bearing one scape with two flowers, a standard lotus-petal flower with excellent fragrance. In the winter of the same year it was published in Anhui Lanhui. This flower was officially registered on May 10, 2010, with registration number (Lan) 0344. This variety generally has leaves 15-30 cm long and 0.8 cm wide, with an obliquely upright leaf posture, light green leaf color, thick and glutinous leaf texture, finely serrated leaf margins, blunt leaf tips, blunt and rounded leaf sheaths, and tender green leaf buds with a red blush at the bud tips. The flower buds are lotus-seed shaped, purplish red with deep purple vein markings and green variegation; the flower scape is emerald green and rises above the leaves, reaching up to 20 cm, blooming with twin flowers side by side, each identical; the flower shape is cupped and embracing, with flat shoulders or slightly drooping, the petal texture is emerald green, glutinous and lustrous, the three outer petals are short and round, with contracted bases and flared angles, tightly edged, and thickened at the petal tips, the petals are 2 cm long and 1.6 cm wide, with a length-to-width ratio of 1:0.8; the clam-shell-shaped petals are smooth and rounded, with a red variegated patch on the inner side, a large round lip, and on the lip surface a large bright red patch in the shape of the character "mountain" that is dazzling to the eye. The fragrance is of the delicate subtle type.
The specific details of its discovery: "One day in the winter of the lunar year 2006 (January 2007 in the solar calendar), a flower farmer from Dongxixi Township, Huoshan County, collected a snakeskin bag of Cymbidium goeringii in the local mountain forest and planted them in the woods behind the mountain. On Lunar New Year's Eve 2006 (February 17, 2007 in the solar calendar), the mountain farmer found a flowering Cymbidium goeringii among these collected plants, dug it up and planted it in a pot, and called me to come see it. That is how this lotus-petal flower was discovered." (Wang Yonghong)
A floral-art lotus-petal Cymbidium goeringii, named Wanding, also known as Aihe, named by its discoverer Wang Yonghong, collected in February 2007 in the Yangsan Zhai Scenic Area, Dongxixi Township, Huoshan County, Anhui Province. When collected, five seedlings with two old pseudobulbs were taken down the mountain, bearing one scape with two flowers, a standard lotus-petal flower with excellent fragrance.
This variety generally has leaves 15-30 cm long and 0.8 cm wide, with an obliquely upright leaf posture, light green leaf color, thick and glutinous leaf texture, finely serrated leaf margins, blunt leaf tips, blunt and rounded leaf sheaths, and tender green leaf buds with a red blush at the bud tips. The flower buds are lotus-seed shaped, purplish red with deep purple vein markings and green variegation; the flower scape is emerald green and rises above the leaves, reaching up to 20 cm, blooming with twin flowers side by side, each identical; the flower shape is cupped and embracing, with flat shoulders or slightly drooping, the petal texture is emerald green, glutinous and lustrous, the three outer petals are short and round, with contracted bases and flared angles, tightly edged, and thickened at the petal tips, the petals are 2 cm long and 1.6 cm wide, with a length-to-width ratio of 1:0.8; the clam-shell-shaped petals are smooth and rounded, with a red variegated patch on the inner side, a large round lip, and on the lip surface a large bright red patch in the shape of the character "mountain" that is dazzling to the eye. The fragrance is of the delicate subtle type.
