A Detailed Introduction to the Characteristics and Appreciation Value of the Old Supreme Cymbidium Variety
Petal type: Plum petal (green shell type)
History: Selected in the Xinchou year of the Daoguang reign of the Qing Dynasty (1901) by Feng Changsheng of Gongcheng Garden in Hangzhou.
Among cymbidiums, only the Old Supreme must not have its pot moved after the buds appear; moving or repotting it will cause the buds to stall. So if you want the Old Supreme to bloom, you must resist the urge to move the pot.
Characteristics: The flower scape is light green, thick and upright, 40-50 cm tall, bearing about 15 flowers; when grown strong, a single scape can reach 20 flowers. The pedicels are long, the three outer petals have round tips with tight edges, the petal flesh is thick, the petal tips curl up into a spoon shape, with long feet and narrowed bases, the two lateral sepals have level shoulders, the five petals are set in separate sockets, the gui (pouch) is a hard pouch holding the center, and the lip is a large dragon-swallow tongue, like the tongue shape of a dragon in mythology,
the tongue surface covered with vivid red spots, making it a top-grade green-shell plum-petal cymbidium.
Petal type: Green-shell type green cymbidium plum petal.
History: Discovered in the Xinchou year of the Guangxu reign of the Qing Dynasty (1901) in Fuyang, and selected by Feng Changjin of Gongcheng Garden in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. To distinguish it from "Jiangnan New Supreme," the orchid world called it "Old Supreme."
Characteristics: Leaves 40-55 cm long and about 1 cm wide. The leaf texture is thick and strongly upright, with a slight leaf groove from the petiole to the middle section, becoming gradually flat from the middle section to the leaf tip. The leaf posture is slanted and upright.
The flower scape is light green, thick and upright, and the flower buds split open as soon as they emerge from the soil. The mature scape is 40-50 cm tall and generally bears 8-20 flowers. The florets have long pedicels.
The three outer petals are round-tipped, tightly edged, and thick-fleshed. Long feet with narrowed bases, separate sockets, hard pouch holding the center (sometimes occasionally split-head and closed-back form), the lip is a large dragon-swallow tongue, and the shoulders are level. The bracts are green. Jiufeng Pavilion and Chen's Shuizhu Residence purchased and planted it together. It has been listed among the eight new varieties of cymbidium.
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