Orchids once sold for astronomical prices, now they are affordable, beautiful, easy to grow, with pure fragrance, and suitable for beginners

Introduction

Green plants and potted flowers are essential decorations for home life. Keeping some flowers and plants at home has many benefits: it beautifies the room and lifts the mood. "Flower Sound Potted Plant Diary · Issue 1348" introduces you to an orchid that was once very famous.

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Friends familiar with orchids should not be unfamiliar with this flower. It is called "Datang Shengshi" (Prosperous Age of the Great Tang). It once won grand prizes at national orchid exhibitions many times and was crazily sought after. In 2006, its price was hyped to an astronomical 2.6 million yuan, attracting countless people to propagate it. It became a star orchid at the time, and everyone regarded it as a marvel.

Datang Shengshi

Datang Shengshi is essentially a hybrid bred using Cymbidium goeringii 'Yu Hudie' as the male parent and Cymbidium lianpan 'Bilong Qidie' as the female parent. It blooms as a multi-petal butterfly flower. Unscrupulous flower traders called it a wild-collected orchid and drove the price to its peak, attracting countless orchid farmers to buy and plant it at high prices. It was later confirmed to be a hybrid orchid, and the price plummeted all the way, causing many people to lose their entire fortunes.

Its ornamental value is indeed good

The reason Datang Shengshi could be hyped up is related to its ornamental value. Its flower form is well-proportioned and it once became a representative of exotic-type flowers. Compared with the famous Fushan Qidie, it is not inferior at all. Its flowering period is long, and its fragrance is also very pure. Even after the flowers have bloomed for more than a month, a delicate fragrance still remains, and one plant can perfume a whole room.

Easy to grow

Hybrid orchids generally have robust traits and are easier to grow and care for than wild-collected orchids. Datang Shengshi is the same. This variety has a well-developed root system, large and thick leaves, and strong adaptability to the environment, making it relatively easy to grow. After falling from its pedestal, it is still loved by flower enthusiasts and has become one of the most popular hybrid orchids.

Orchid bonsai

For orchid enthusiasts who love orchids, it is a good thing that orchid market prices have returned to rationality. You can buy one for ten or twenty yuan, and if you fail to keep it alive, you will not feel heartbroken; if you grow it well, it is a beautiful bonsai flower. For beginners, hybrid orchids are still the first choice. As long as you like it, whether it is a hybrid or not does not matter. We can eat hybrid rice, so why can't we grow hybrid orchids, right?