spider plant Orchid

Scientific name: Chlorophytumcomosum

Alias: hanging orchid

Family and genus: Cymbidium of Liliaceae

Category: herbaceous flowers

Morphological features:

Herbaceous flowers, basal leaves, strip-shaped, slender flowers drawn from the leaves, small, white flowers, clustered at the top of the pedicel, showing racemes.

Sometimes the flower turns into a stolon, and small plants grow at the top of the stolon.

C.comosum, leaves basal, slender, ca. 3 mm wide, 20 cm long; stolons drawn from leaves, 30 cm 80 cm long. There are 1-6 florets on the flower stem.

The short rhizome is clustered with cylindrical fleshy fibrous roots.

Flowering spring and summer, suitable environmental conditions, autumn and winter also often bloom.

Distribution of origin:

Native to tropical and subtropical regions.

Growth habits:

Sex likes warm, humid and semi-shady environment, and the suitable temperature for growth is 15-20 ℃, which requires fertile soil and good drainage.

It is not resistant to severe cold and heat, the suitable growth temperature is 15 ℃ to 25 ℃, and the room temperature in winter should not be lower than 5 ℃. Avoid strong light in high temperature, keep sparse shade, see more sunlight when low temperature is cool, and keep leaf color bright.

Sandy culture soil with humus, loose and fertile, and strong permeability is required. Family cultivation, can be used waste gentleman orchid soil plus half of the fine sand mixed evenly, after exposure to drying and disinfection, planting is the most ideal.

Cultivation and management is relatively easy. Leaves are sensitive to light, lack of light, light green or yellowish green leaves; too strong light, leaves withered yellow, and even death. It is cultivated and maintained in the outdoor shade in summer.

The suitable temperature for growth is about 20 ℃. If it is cultivated in greenhouse in winter, more than 5 ℃ can survive the winter safely.

The growing season should be fully watered, the high temperature weather should spray water to the leaf surface and the ground appropriately, maintain the basin soil humidity, increase the air humidity and cool down; reduce the amount of water and watering times and increase the light in winter.

During the growing period, mature liquid fertilizer is applied every 2 weeks. Potted plants should choose the mixed culture soil of rotten leaf soil, river sand and garden soil, and the robust plants can be changed once in spring.

Purpose:

Cymbidium is a very common indoor potted foliage plant, which can be used as a shelf ornamental plant or hanging ornamental plant.

The whole herb can be used as medicine.

Common variants:

Phnom Penh orchid (var.marginatum): the leaf edge is golden.

Cymbidium (var.mediopictum): the leaf blade has a wide white longitudinal pattern along the main vein.

Broad-leaf orchid (C.elatum) with rhizome. Leaves broadly linear, 1-1.5 cm wide, ca. 30 cm long, entire or slightly undulate, stem 30-50 cm long. The flowering stem is slender, born on the walking stem, and sometimes becomes a stolon beyond the leaves.

Golden heart broad-leaf orchid (var.medio~pictum), with yellowish-white broad longitudinal lines along the main vein of the leaves.

Phnom Penh broad-leaf orchid (var.variegata) with yellow-white leaf margin.

Silver-edged broad-leaf orchid (var.marginata) with green and white markings on the leaf edge.