Bean pea orchid

Douban orchid, one of the many excellent orchid varieties in Yunnan, flying shoulder is one of them. Douban orchid is a subspecies of Cymbidium. If it doesn't blossom, it looks like Chunlan, and it's hard to tell. After flowering, needless to say, bean orchid petals thick, dark green, the flower shape is good, but not fragrant. Vanilla is rare. It is a cross between cymbidium and Chunlan or lotus petal. To distinguish between unflowered bean orchids, you can look at it this way. The leaves of Cymbidium are slender, short and soft, while the leaves of Cymbidium are thicker, harder and wider than Cymbidium, and their roots are thicker and longer than Cymbidium. So it's hard to tell when you see bean orchid. It's best to get a bean orchid and a spring orchid. Compare it in your hand and you'll know everything.

Growing in the special natural environment of the plateau, affected by complex topography, diverse climate types, strong ultraviolet radiation on the plateau, rich underground mineral deposits and other comprehensive factors, it has the following characteristics and advantages: leaf type: leaf type has fine leaves, medium-wide leaves, broad leaves, etc.; fine leaves and medium-wide leaves are common, semi-vertical, and the leaf edge is serrated. There are 6 leaves in clusters, linetype, 30-40cm long and 0.3-1cm wide, and 4 leaves clasping forcefully, growing thick, graceful and elegant; there are also leaf art, strange leaves, dwarf species, etc.; flowering: flowering is slightly earlier than spring orchids such as flower fragrance and lotus petal orchids, generally blooming from the end of November to March of the following year, the flowering period is longer than that of spring orchids, and the flowers generally bloom for 30 to 40 days without withering, and the elderly can bloom for 60 or 70 days. Flower type: flower out of shelf, scape erect, about 12-18cm high, 1 flower per scape, 2 occasionally, flower diameter 5 Mel 7cm; petals are usually thicker than flowers, so they have better petal type, plum petal, lotus type daffodil petal, common flat shoulder, flying shoulder, hard holding, semi-hard holding. There are many valve variations, including multi-valve, few valve, odd valve, mass valve, chrysanthemum valve, accessory valve butterfly, holding valve butterfly, core butterfly, hard holding, semi-hard holding, tree type. Such a rich petal shape and variation can not only conform to the aesthetics of Chinese traditional orchid culture, but also satisfy many trendy orchid lovers' aesthetic pursuit of new, strange and strange petals. Unlike some other orchid varieties, the petal shape is often not in place after going down the hill; the petal type of bean orchid is not only stable, but also a generation of horticultural planting tends to be better and better. Most of the variants, such as Qihua, butterfly and so on, can hold steady. The color is mostly bean green, but there are many changes, such as orange, gold, red, peach, yellow, golden, purple, white, etc.; in particular, the series of Zhu Jinhua is extremely bright and eye-catching, and after-Ming, the redder and redder the sun is, the more beautiful it is; some petals (especially lip petals) are also attached with a layer of crystal sand, which appears to be warm, moist and waxy, and has been collected by the Japanese orchid family for many times. The traditional aesthetic view of orchids in China regards clear, light, plain and elegant as the beauty of orchids. With the introduction of the west wind to the east, great changes have taken place in the aesthetics of orchids, plus the development of vegetarian varieties is old and numerous. Most of them are no longer rare and commonplace, and many orchid lovers begin to pursue the colorful, warm and unrestrained color of orchids. The color of Douban orchid is extremely gorgeous, red as the rising sun, white as auspicious snow, yellow gold, green Youmei jade …... Bright and dazzling and pleasing to the eye, to a large extent, it caters to the modern aesthetics of many orchid lovers; in addition, the colored flowers in orchids are not uncommon, but the colorful complex flowers or whorls in bean orchids are better than the general single-color flowers and add more charm to them. But bean orchid color flowers (especially Zhu Jinhua), down the mountain compound flowers are easier to lose color, those who can return to their colors will generally be stable. Flower art has Zhong through, chimera flower, covering wheel, complex color, spotted flower, crystal flower and so on. Vegetarian heart has green, flavin, gold, red (full red lips), peach parotid, and so on. The flower fragrance is generally unscented, needless to say, this is the deficiency of Douban orchid, and it is also one of the main reasons why it has been neglected for many years, but because it is closely related to Duoxiang, and the ecological environment and florescence are basically the same in the same area, there are many natural hybrids between the two. The common ones are golden bean pea, "vanilla bean", with slight fragrance or fragrance, in which the fragrance of "vanilla bean" is pure and pure. In 2002, the author got a red-lipped "vanilla bean flap" collected in Eshan County, central Yunnan, with a pleasant fragrance, which was only seen by the author for more than 20 years. Ye Yi has edge stripe, medium penetration, Shuyi, sweeping tail, beak, dwarf species, crystal dragon, crystal stripe, and so on. Fortunately, the leaf art of Douban orchid is easy to bring to flowers. "the flowering rate of grass in line art and crystal art is very high. Often can produce high-grade multicolor flowers and crystal flowers. Its strong color contrast, clear boundaries and smooth changes are unmatched by other orchid species. " (Betula platyphylla "the first appreciation of bean orchid")