Where do wild orchids grow? Netizen: No wonder you can't find it up the mountain

Netizens asked me where wild orchids grow. On this point, I believe that good farmers have a say, of course, I only have Chunlan and Huilan, so I can only talk about where these two kinds of orchids grow.

Orchids symbiotic with moss

Pictures 1, 2 and 3 are wild spring orchids, as you can see from the photos (the photos were taken by a good farmer himself). Most of them grow under broad-leaved forests or mixed forests of pine and broad-leaved trees. This kind of place can be sheltered in summer, and there is sunshine in other seasons. Orchids are mostly sloping slopes and do not accumulate water on rainy days.

Double flowers of Cymbidium under broad-leaved forest

Where orchids grow, the soil is mainly composed of soft humus, and the structure from top to bottom is as follows: the top layer is deciduous leaves, then semi-rotten leaves, then fertile soft humus soil, and the bottom layer is sandy or red sandy soil (Langen will not take root on the upper surface of this layer of soil). Another feature of orchids is ventilation. If you have a chance to go to the mountains to find orchids in summer, when you sit on the edge of orchids to rest, you will feel cooler than other places in the same mountain.

Chunlan under the broad-leaved forest

About the orchid growth hillside orientation, generally facing the east, southeast more, toward the west or northwest also have, but relatively much less. Cymbidium generally grows near hillsides and ravines; Cymbidium grows taller than Cymbidium, usually in the upper half of the hillside, and even grows on a 600-meter ridge (the cymbidium pictured below grows on the ridge).

Cymbidium on the top of the mountain

The vitality of wild orchids is very tenacious. They can still survive where the mountain forests are artificially destroyed. The mountain forest of wild cymbidium in the picture below has been developed for eight years. It used to be a pine and oak forest, and now it is planted with pecans and camellia trees. Herbicides are used twice a year. Although the orchid leaf has been greatly hurt, but it is still strong in living, see such orchids, you still have a reason not to raise well?

Cymbidium under adverse conditions

Those who say that wild orchids are afraid of freezing are book men who have never been to the mountains. Wild orchids can safely survive a winter of more than 10 degrees below zero in the wild (good photo: the extreme temperature in the mountain area of the farmer's hometown is 13 degrees below zero, and they have never seen orchids freeze to death). It is because they have added a thick layer of winter quilt (fallen leaves and rotten leaves) to themselves, as long as the roots of the orchids are not frozen, they will not freeze to death. Therefore, when our family keeps orchids overwintering, we must do a good job in protecting the roots. A good farmer suggests that a thick circle of foam cotton around the basin wall can solve the problem.

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