Millennium Dragon Butterfly Cymbidium

At the 2000 Orchid Festival held in Hangzhou-the 10th National Orchid Expo, one of my new flowers, "Qiandelong Butterfly", was awarded an excellent award by the judges. The Millennium Dragon Butterfly is a new flower of Chunlan collected from Xikou Mountain area of Fenghua City, Zhejiang Province in 1996. after five years of cultivation and ornamental, this kind of Chunlan is a rare rare butterfly flower with stable characters and easy flowering.

Millennium dragon butterfly root thick and short stout, bulb onion stem, inconspicuous. Each plant has four or five leaves, reddish teeth, two leaf beetles, and the high one reaches 60mm, hard and reddish. The foot of the leaf is in a row, stacked left and right, showing a V shape, up to 1/2, the upper leaf is slightly spreading, 8mm wide, 80 °oblique, the tip of the leaf is 45 °obliquely acute, and rarely 45 °oblique. The leaf is hard and leathery, dark green and shiny. The leaf teeth are rough, from tail to foot, very obvious. The leaf length is from 25cm to 35cm. Flowers usually take scape from the leaf beetle of the five-leaf interannual grass, usually have five bracts, the bracts are light red, the bracts are green with red tendons, and are also stiff, with a height of l0cm to 15cm. The millennium dragon butterfly is a large flower species. Flower exhibition 70mm, sepals emerald green and thick waxy, triangular unfolded, main calyx wide 10mm, slightly backward urgent, epicalyx, wide 8mm, slightly curled backward, potential if the wind, red veins fine clear, but not obvious. The most prominent point is that the petals are obvious, such as the spread of butterfly wings. In the butterfly is very rare: wide waist 15mm, the lower 1/2 butterfly into a prominent white red, the upper one is green, especially the white butterfly part of the left and right part has a red dot, can simulate binoculars, the two petals are very dynamic. The whole flower looks quite like a bibcock on the front: petals green like dragon horn, core column in the middle like top bead, wide white tongue drooping back-curling, bright red Yuanbao point; epicalyx back roll can mimic dragon beard. The whole flower for the first time, fresh and beautiful eye-catching, dragon flying Phoenix dance, fascinating. This year is the year of the Dragon, AD 2000, so it is named "Millennium Dragon Butterfly".