A Brief Talk on Chinese Orchid Butterfly Flower Art

Chinese orchids in the "butterfly", a variety of forms, forming one of the most moving group of Chinese orchids, this group collectively known as "Chinese orchid butterfly flower art".

Chinese orchid flowers, if 2 sepals (parapetals) or 2 petals (petals) partially or completely mutated into tongue petals, then this kind of orchid flowers will become more colorful, usually tongue perianth has green, white, red, yellow and other colors. These variant perianth will be like tongue (lip) flap, the tip will be backward or outward, its shape and color like butterfly wings, open flowers similar to the wind flying butterfly, this phenomenon is called "butterfly". This kind of orchid we call "butterfly flower art".

Classification Butterfly flower art can be divided into two categories: one is the orchid sepals (parapetals) appear labelized variation, known as "outer butterfly." Another type of flap (petal) appears on the lip variation, called "inner butterfly", also known as "inner butterfly" or "pistil butterfly". This is divided into halo butterfly and plain butterfly: halo butterfly is butterfly part has color spots; plain butterfly is butterfly part clean, elegant, no miscellaneous spots. According to the number of butterfly parts can be divided into full butterfly, half butterfly, grass butterfly, also known as full butterfly, half butterfly, grass butterfly. More than 1/2 of the whole butterfly finger butterfly; half butterfly finger butterfly phenomenon up to 1/3; grass butterfly finger butterfly phenomenon is not much, that is, one side has butterfly, the other side has no butterfly phenomenon.

Flower type in the large family of Chinese orchid, a variety of flower types have their own merits. Among the flower types, butterflies have unique floral art. For example, the green petals of the inner butterfly turn white and are decorated with gorgeous red patches; some cat ears are inlaid with silver edges, and the butterfly inside the palm changes into purple-black; some butterfly inside the palm changes into tiger and leopard patterns. The lower half of the outer butterfly accessory valve has butterfly variation, that is, from the original green to white, and decorated with bright red spots, and some have a red line in the middle, forming a accessory valve (green, white, red) three colors contrast is obvious. The flower type of Chinese orchid butterfly flower art is not quiet like plum petals and narcissus petals. It is light and colorful, making the flowers more three-dimensional and dynamic, which makes people sigh with the magic of nature.

Leaf shape and bud Chinese orchid butterfly flower art leaf shape characteristics are obvious, all open butterfly flower art plant, generally speaking, its leaf width of the two fans are not equal, that is, the main vein of the leaf is not in the middle, leaf edge serrated in the leaf tail, like sand skin shape, leaf sheath firm, flower bud sheath shell from outside to inside a piece of fresh, sand quantity is thick, bracts have thick beautiful color, spring orchid flower bud is not blooming, there is a shell outside the faint visible "white belly."

Before the founding of New China, there were probably more than ten kinds of spring orchids and cymbidium butterfly flower art circulating in the orchid world, such as the well-known rare butterfly, dancing butterfly, Yang Su butterfly, pistil butterfly, etc. Since the reform and opening-up in the 1980s, the number of butterfly orchids has increased, and its grade and price have increased, forming a unique and colorful orchid family. For example, butterfly dragon, Tianhe butterfly, Tianlao lotus butterfly, Longfu butterfly, Swift, colorful butterfly, Xinguang butterfly, tiger stamen butterfly, black cat stamen butterfly, leopard butterfly, millennium stamen butterfly, Wengzhou stamen butterfly (fairy dance), Baguio, giant panda, etc. of Chunlan; big color, Fuhe butterfly, Wuhu butterfly, new three-star butterfly, etc. of cymbidium; holy fire of Jianlan, cold three friends of cold orchid, Jinfului of melan, Taoyuan three knots of Chunjian, etc.

The outer butterfly with high grade should have the following characteristics: the main sepal, that is, the main valve must be covered on the holding valve, commonly known as the "cap"; the upper lip of the 2 accessory valves reaches 1/2 of the valve width, and there is a fold at the labelized position and a lateral lobe at the root of the valve. These characteristics are symmetrical on both sides of the accessory valve; the lateral lobe is skirt-shaped at the rear of the valve, and the fold band forms a boundary in the middle of the valve to make the labelization more obvious; The color of labial part of 2 parapetals is white and bright, red and bright, the color contrast of flower color is strong, the flower color is bright and pretty; the butterfly appears in plum petal, narcissus petal, lotus petal and vegetarian heart; the butterfly character is stable.

Low grade outer butterfly characteristics: main valve upright and anti-erect; labelized parts less or not at the end of the valve, one side has butterflies, the other side does not have butterflies; dark color; butterfly part asymmetry; butterfly character unstable.

High grade butterflies should have the following characteristics: 2 holding petals (petals) all lip. The so-called all labelization means that the petals have middle lobes, lateral lobes and pleats; the labelization degree of 2 petals is consistent. If the color heart variety is required, the red dot on the 2 labial petals, the shape and color of the 2 petals are completely consistent and symmetrical; the outer three petals are short, round and wide; the color is bright; the character is stable.

Low-grade inner butterfly features: 2 petals with only lip at the end, no lateral lobes at the base; asymmetric on both sides of the petals; dark color; unstable character.