What are the types of orchids?

Cymbidium creeping growth, as a potted flower is of great ornamental value, just like a green butterfly dancing, then let's take a look at the species of Cymbidium.

Hanging orchid, also known as: hanging pot grass, hanging orchid, fishing orchid, orchid grass, folding crane orchid, Western Europe, also known as spider grass or aircraft grass, Liliaceae, Cymbidium plants, native to South Africa. Perennial evergreen herbs of the family Liliaceae. The roots are fleshy and the leaves are slender, like orchids. The stolon drawn from the axil of the orchid leaf is long, rigid and soft, and the leaves at the top of the stem droop outward from the basin and flutter with the wind, resembling a crane that spreads its wings. Therefore, hanging orchid ancient has the name of folding crane orchid, the plant has the effect of purifying air, the whole plant can be used as medicine.

Cymbidium is a perennial green herb with short rhizomes, thick and short root tails, white flowers and sometimes cyan flowers with linear leaves with green and yellow stripes in the middle. The leaves clustered at the top of the stem droop outward from the edge of the basin, fluttering with the wind, like a crane that spreads its wings. So the hanging orchid also has a good-sounding name called folding crane.

Friends who like plants must know that Cymbidium is a good indoor plant that can be cultivated in a bright indoor environment all the year round. It generally grows in places with good draining soil and fertile soil, and is relatively drought-resistant but not cold-resistant, and the growth temperature is generally between 15 ℃ and 35 ℃, because the roots of Cymbidium are well developed and grow faster, and if they do not change flowerpots in time, they will cause root accumulation and make the leaves withered and yellow.

Types of hanging orchids

There are mainly 8 varieties of Cymbidium:

1. Broad-leaf orchid: the leaf is broadly linear, entire or slightly wrinkled. The scape is extracted from the leaves and forms a creeping stem after flowering, which can take root and sprout and grow into a new plant. Raceme, white flowers, 2 flowers per bract axil, perianth two whorls, 6 pieces. Flowering in spring and summer, capsule three prismatic globose.

2, silver heart orchid, also known as the middle spot hanging orchid: the leaf is narrow and long, lanceolate, milky white with green stripes and edges.

3. Milky white orchid: the main vein of the leaf has a white longitudinal pattern.

4. Purple orchid, also known as colored leaf orchid: the main vein of the leaf is purple.

5. Phnom Penh orchid: the edge of the leaf is golden, the leaf is slender and soft, the leaf hangs like a flower, it is evergreen all the year round, and it is known as "folding crane orchid" in ancient times. Its special shape constitutes a unique hanging landscape and three-dimensional beauty, which can play a chic embellishment effect.

6. Magnolia: evergreen perennial herb, slender leaves, linear lanceolate, yellow-white longitudinal stripes in the center, bright green. It is a common office and home potted plant.

7. Silver-edged hanging orchid: the leaf edge of silver-edged orchid is white.

8. Magnolia: there are silver-white longitudinal stripes around the main vein of the leaf.

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