Orchids once sold for sky-high prices, with strong fragrance and high ornamental value, but now they are cheap and worth buying
Introduction
Green plants and potted flowers are essential decorative items for home life. Keeping some flowers and plants at home has many benefits: it can beautify the room and delight the mood. "Huasheng Potted Plant Diary · Issue 1406" introduces you to an orchid that was once very expensive.
Today's featured plant
Orchids are a traditional famous flower of China, ranking fourth among the top ten famous flowers, with influence across the entire Chinese character cultural sphere. Chinese orchids (referring to Cymbidium goeringii, Cymbidium sinense, Cymbidium faberi, Cymbidium kanran, and others) have many varieties. The flower introduced this issue is named Yutu Caidie (Jade Rabbit Colorful Butterfly). It was once very expensive, but now it is cheap. Let's learn about it together.
Yutu Caidie
Yutu Caidie, abbreviated as Yutu, is a downhill variety of Lianbanlan (Cymbidium tortisepalum var. longibracteatum), originating from western Yunnan. It gets its name because the flower's column center closely resembles a rabbit's ear. It is an excellent orchid art treasure among the three-star butterflies of Lianbanlan with a relatively high degree of butterfly transformation. In 2003, at the 13th China (Dali) Orchid Expo, five plants sold for 1.02 million yuan, making it one of the orchid famous varieties with the highest total transaction price at that expo. The following year, it was registered as a famous Chinese orchid variety.
The flowering period is also very long
Yutu blooms in early spring. The petals appear white, with obvious red lines in the center of the main petal. The lip petals are fully butterfly-shaped, with bright red patches on the petals and distinct colors, giving it high ornamental value. One scape bears 2 to 4 flowers and can bloom continuously for two months. The flowers are delicately fragrant and refreshing.
Easy to cultivate
Yutu has stable traits, strong leaf form, a well-developed root system, a high seedling production rate, and a high reflowering rate. It has many advantages and is also relatively easy to cultivate. It likes loose, well-drained substrate; cultivation with special orchid soil is sufficient. It likes a growing environment with ventilation and scattered light. Once its habits are understood, cultivation is very easy.
Orchid bonsai
Yutu Caidie is a rare orchid art treasure with both butterfly flowers and leaf butterflies. It has repeatedly won major awards at orchid exhibitions, enjoying great glory, and its price rose accordingly, attracting countless flower merchants to introduce it. With the expansion of cultivation scale, its numbers increased sharply, and now the price is very cheap, similar to ordinary grass. It is very worth buying: if you fail to keep it alive, you won't feel heartbroken, and if you keep it well, it becomes a beautiful orchid bonsai, with high cost-effectiveness.