Like a naked man in a straw hat-- Italian red orchid

Italian red door orchid, also known as naked male orchid, Italian male orchid, for orchid red door orchid is a species, plant height 20-50 cm, flower terminal, white pink or purple, tepals for helmet-shaped, dark stripes, the shape of the whole flower is like a naked man wearing a straw hat. Capsule erect. The flowers bloom from April to May. Growing environment for grassland, limestone, abandoned farmland, jungle areas. Native to the Mediterranean.

Cymbidium italicum

The Italian red orchid is a terrestrial herb, growing 20-50 cm tall and having a fleshy rhizome at the base. Stems erect, terete, with 1-3 tubular sheaths near base, leaves above sheaths, basal leaves, 1-5, slightly plump, base narrowed into sheaths embracing stems, leaves with distinct undulations, leaf surface sometimes with brown spots. Three or four dried leaf sheaths remain.

Cymbidium italicum

Racemes terminal, globose spikelets ca. 5 - 15 cm long, with numerous flowers, inflorescences terete, rachis glabrous; bracts often erect, lanceolate, shorter than flowers; ovary twisted, glabrous, pedicellate; flowers crowded on inflorescences. Flowers are smaller, usually pink or purple, rarely pure white. The flower is inverted (lip below); tepals are helmet-shaped with dark stripes, and the entire flower is shaped like a naked man in a straw hat. The calyx is straw hat shaped and the lateral sepals are open; the petals are often combined with the middle sepals in a pocket shape, with no eyelashes at the edges; the lips are often extended forward, like human hands and feet. 3 - 4-lobed, margin glabrous, base narrowly clawed, base spurred; pistil erect, pistil pale pink and purple, anthers at top of pistil, connective slightly wider, anther cells 2, parallel; pollen mass 2, pollen grains with small clumps, pollinaceous stalk and sticky disk; 2 sticky disks, each buried in a sticky ball, two sticky balls together enclosed in a sticky sac of the stamen beak, usually subspherical, protruding above the stamen column; 1 stigma, depressed, located in the pit below the stamen beak; the stamen beak is located between the two anther cells at the lower part of the anther; 2 staminodes, located on both sides of the anther base. Capsule erect. The flowers bloom from April to May.

Cymbidium italicum

Plant culture:

Italian red door orchid is a kind of blushing flower, let a lot of netizens see after exclaiming: "too talented"! "There's actually such a flower in this world?" That's too much! "Amazing!" There are also netizens who can't believe that there are such flowers in the world, and there are various opinions.

There is also a legend in the West that if a man is very philandering, playing with women, irresponsible, the next life will become this kind of naked male flower, good and ugly, and finally withered.