Chinese Cymbidium

[Joakim B]

Great photos of unusual plants (for Europeans at least). Only seen things like that on web pages that I can not read and with strange google translation.
I doubt that anyone think it is hijacking to add great pictures to a relevant thread. Nice to see species of Cymbidium. Here in Portugal we grow a lot of the hybrids since they are hardy outside for us. Some in the orchid society also grow species but I have not got any yet, only primary hybrids or pants that look "wild".

Hope to see more.
Kind regards
Joakim

[Darren]

Wonderful Kenneth!

You have not hijacked the thread at all. I started it in the hope that more information about these plants, and pictures, would be forthcoming. Both the plants and the info are in short supply. The thread has therefore achieved it's purpose thanks to yourself and I for one am very grateful for your posts. Please continue!

[ranunculus]

or pants that look "wild".

Now these we have GOT to see, Joakim!!!    

[Joakim B]

Cliff since this is a site with some limits I dare not show the "wild" pants in public. Maybe People will not think of them as wild and I will be disapointed so I dare not .
Hopfully I can show some wild looking plants later when they come into flower later this year.
Kind regards
Joakim

[KBruyninckx]

So here are the Cymbidium sinense in flower at the moment:

Cymbidium sinense "009" (I lost the clone name for now, need to look it up in a file) with 4 spikes:



and a close up:



This is actually one of the best "growers" within the collection.

[KBruyninckx]

Cymbidium sinense "Da Shi Men" one of the variegated leave clone:

[KBruyninckx]

Cymbidium sinense "Fei Cui Yu, another variegated leave one:

[KBruyninckx]

Cymbidium sinense "Jin Ru Yi":



and a close up of the flower:




Here you get a good view of a tall & slender pot. The pot shown here has a height of 21 cm and a width of 7 cm.
These were originally sourced from the US (yes the expensive way because we needed them fast: air freight). Nowadays we have sourced tall slender pot locally: 18 cm high x 7 cm wide and 21 cm high x  9  cm wide.



This plant will need to be repotted soon as the plant is potbound, they do like that but they need to be able to push new growths somewhere in that pot as well 

[KBruyninckx]

Cymbidium sinense "Tai Ping Yang" the last one for this session today:




Closeup of the variegation on the leaves of this clone:

[Hristo]

Kenneth, great Orchids, any chance you could post some of your Masdevallias and Draculas in the Pleurothallid thread?
Cheers
Chris

[luis]

Hi, i'm new here. My name is Luis from Portugal. I have some chinese cymbidiums too. Some are near to bloom. Wen they do it i will post my photos. Thank's by all this precious informations!!!

[Maggi Young]

Hi, Luis, very good to have you join us here! So far only a few Forumists from Portugal, so you are most welcome!

[Ragged Robin]

Kenneth, your contributions to this thread are exquisite - the photographs show each Cymbidium in such a way that it is so clear as to feel one is right there and the detail is wonderful - I love these plants for their unusual colouring and exotic form.  Please show us some more and tell us about them  

[Ragged Robin]

Welcome Luis, looking forward to seeing your Chinese Cymbidium in flower 

[luis]

My chinese cymbidium list is: Cymbidium ensifolium cv.Baodao Xiann; Cymbidium ensifolium cv.Fu Shan Qi Die; Cymbidium ensifolium cv.Jin He; Cymbidium ensifolium cv.Sa Mo Jin; Cymbidium fioribundum var. pumilum; Cymbidium goeringii cv Tiancao; Cymbidium goeringii v albino Zhang He Su; Cymbidium lianpan cv.albino'Xiao Xue Su';  Cymbidium lianpan cv.'Chun Lei'; and Cymbidium sinense cv.Tao Ji.