Byras Special Discussion (Group One, Part One)

This is a pot ofCymbidium sinenseFugui, the photo was taken in February 1996, and the entire pot of flowers all died by early 1997. At the time, I was keen on collecting variegated-leaf patterns, and I heard that those with mountain-peak shapes were "treasures" and generally relatively stable, so I spent almost 2000 yuan to buy it from an orchid dealer surnamed Cheng in Zhangpu County, Fujian Province. Its symptoms were that after the shoots emerged they did not continue to grow, as if they had become stunted, then the old pseudobulbs kept collapsing, and the new buds later turned yellow and black, and in the end I had no choice but to throw them away together with the pot and soil. Figure 1 is the whole pot offlowersin full view. (Zheng Yuhui)