Cymbidium goeringii 'Baogong Hun' Variety Characteristics and Care Guide
Cymbidium goeringii black solid-color flower, a Cymbidium goeringii from Guizhou, with semi-arching leaves and an elegant form. Both leaf buds and flower buds are purple-black. The flower scape is tall, rising above the foliage, usually bearing 2-3 flowers. The three outer sepals are deep green with black lines along the central veins. The two petals are also green-based with black striations. The lip is a solid black-purple. Its color, form and meaning display uprightness, integrity, purity, ...
Baogong Hun, also called Baogong Su, is a black solid-color Cymbidium goeringii. Although it is a single-flowered fragrant type, one scape often bears 2-3 flowers. The flower scape is tall and rises above the foliage, with a well-proportioned inflorescence. The three outer sepals are deep green, with black lines commonly seen along the central veins, either wide or narrow, long or short. The bases of the two petals are also deep green, with broad deep-purple-to-black bands covering most of the petals and reaching nearly to the petal tips, just like the bird-feather plume on a top scholar's hat. All the petals are spread out brightly and generously, with an easy, dignified bearing.
Its lip is entirely clean and pure, with the center being deep purple to black and the edges slightly lighter, appearing dark red. The lip is large, the surface is neat, and the color is deep. Against the green background, it appears especially bright black and vivid, giving an even stronger sense of uprightness and unyielding integrity. Baogong's "black" is the color of justice and the countenance of uprightness, while "su" (solid-color) symbolizes openness and uprightness, honesty and solemn dignity.
Baogong Su uses a person to describe color and uses color to evoke the person, one color through the ages, the work of Heaven. Its color, its character, its conduct and its meaning are all clearly matched, displaying uprightness, integrity, purity, understated elegance and dignity, making it truly an outstanding example among black solid-color Cymbidium goeringii.
Baogong Hun is a wild-collected plant from within Guizhou, adjacent to Sichuan. It was cultivated and promoted in Sichuan, and it blooms and grows vigorously;In orchids, there is a saying that solid-color flowers are prized, and among solid-color flowers, red solid-color ones are the rarest, and among red solid-color ones, Baogong is the model;In most red solid-color flowers, the red patch on the lip is not completely filled in, or it is red on the front but not on the back, or the lip is not red when in bud and only gradually turns color after opening;Baogong Hun is different: the entire lip is completely red, front and back, inside and out, uniform throughout, and even when the bud is peeled open the lip is already red;The three outer sepals are emerald green, setting each other off beautifully with the red lip;Cymbidium goeringii basically all require vernalization for the flower quality to be good, but Baogong's flower scape stretches very tall whether it blooms early or late, and it is just as beautiful without vernalization. If it performs the same way when cultivated in the south, it is an even more worthwhile variety to promote.
