How to distinguish between true orchids and fake orchids

In recent years, some illegal flower traffickers have resorted to all means to make and sell fake goods and seek ill-gotten gains. Their methods are changeable and people are hard to prevent. The author will now personally experience with the surrounding Lanyou in the transaction of the lessons of suffering summarized here, I hope Lanyou can take warning.

tiger-spotted seedling

'Tiger-spotted art' is a variety pursued by many orchid friends, but false tiger-spotted seedlings can be seen everywhere in the market (especially downhill varieties). Most of the pseudo-tiger-spot seedlings are flower leaf orchids with the characters of 'tiger spot' and 'snake spot' produced after treating common orchids with chemicals for a period of time, and serve as art grass. Generally, the price is hundreds of yuan or even thousands of yuan, and the less is dozens of yuan. There is also a fake method is to cover with leaves, branches and other substances, so that some parts of the orchid leaves do not see light, and appear tiger spots. Such orchids, raised in the sun for a few days, the color spots will also restore the green.

Artificial traces can always be found on the 'art grass' produced by artificial means. For example, each leaf is in the same position in the place where the art comes out, and the art is very rigid. Only single seedlings, old seedlings were cut off or broken off, orchid vendors said they were eaten by animals and so on.

True tiger spot seedlings out of the 'art' scattered, very natural, no rigid flat cut traces, out of the 'art' position is not symmetrical.

uneven dyeing

The method of making this kind of false orchid is usually to dye the common grass or fragrant petal flower red, yellow or black with pigment. If you use a poor color, flowers will fade when exposed to water; a better color does not fade when exposed to water, which is not easy to distinguish. The flower can be illuminated by sunlight and examined carefully for color in the petal veins for preliminary identification. In addition, the true color lace has a white crystal edge, while the false color flower will be dyed.

seedling assembly

Use toothpicks to insert true seedlings and ordinary seedlings together at the roots, 3 to 5 plants for a tree, in fact, only 1 to 2 seedlings, clean the roots of the orchid, you will find that it is assembled together.

stag a horse

To pass off ordinary orchid as a famous orchid. Such as: down the mountain orchid dwarf grass pretend to be green cover lotus; leaves a little similar will be marked with 'green cloud',' global tripod ',' western god finger', etc., from which to obtain the price difference. Some even use auspicious seedlings, cattail grass posing as orchid grass.

transfer of flowers

The petals or tongues of three or four flowers are glued to ordinary petals to pretend to be multi-petal and multi-tongue. Some flowers of famous species are bought and glued to the leaf-shaped beautiful orchid inflorescences to pretend to be new species or famous species. Make general grass into true lotus, true plum, strange flower, plain heart, etc., wait until Lan You buy home, you will find that the inflorescence is lifeless.

fish eyes for

Hubei, Henan Chunlan impersonated Zhejiang Chunlan. Spring orchid origin is different, flower fragrance is also different, generally speaking, Hubei, Henan spring orchid most not fragrant, only Jiangsu and Zhejiang spring orchid flower fragrance is the king's fragrance.

The crown is tied to the crown.

The four seasons orchid will pretend to be a big grass spring orchid, or ordinary orchid, insisted that what lotus, plum, narcissus petals. In this case, the price of fake orchids tends to have a big gap with genuine ones. Sometimes 4 seedlings of orchids are quoted at only 100 yuan. How is it possible?