Does Cymbidium faberi 'Cheng Mei' smell fragrant when it blooms? Price per seedling and characteristics

Cymbidium faberi 'Cheng Mei' is a traditional famous variety of the Cymbidium faberi plum-petal type. If you want to buy a plum-petal variety of Cymbidium faberi, Cheng Mei is the first choice, because Cheng Mei's blooms are majestic and particularly representative. As for price, it is around 500 yuan to 600 yuan per seedling.

Cymbidium faberi 'Cheng Mei' was selected and bred during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty by a physician surnamed Cheng from Changshu, Jiangsu, and is also known as “Cheng Zi Mei”. Its leaves are broad and large, making it a typical representative of the large-plant type of Cymbidium faberi. The flower bud is a red hemp shell, round and plump. The flower bud tip is shaped like a centipede's pincer head. The leaf posture is semi-pendant, the new shoots are slanting and strong, and the leaf veins are bright, fine and smooth. The leaf texture is thick and glutinous, and the leaf color is dark green; when exposed to sufficient light, the leaf color becomes deep ink green. The flower stalk is thick, commonly known as a woody stalk; the flower stalk rises above the leaf frame, the flower pedicel is purplish red, and the flower stalk has a green base with red clouds.