Object Details
- Description
- Originally collected by the botanist F. Y. Liu in 1990, by 2014 a returning botanist could not find this large, white flowered orchid in its original habitat. The town of Wenshan, for which this orchid is named, is a busy market town with a thriving trade in wild collected orchids and other plants. It is very likely that C. wenshanense has been over collected from its small natural range, and it is now endangered for this reason, as well as deforestation. The Wenshan Cymbidium is readily propagated by seed and cultivated, which is how we came to have this orchid in our collection.
- Bloom Time (Northern Hemisphere)
- February to April
- Pollination Syndrome
- Bee
- Provenance
- From a cultivated plant not of known wild origin
- Accession Number
- 2020-0136A
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Life Form
- Epiphytic
- Bloom Characteristics
- Suberect to arching inflorescence is 12.8-15.6" long with 3-7 white flowers with red lines on lip. The lip turns pink as it ages. Flower is 2.4-2.8" across.
- Fragrance
- Bananas
- Range
- China (SE Yunnan) to Vietnam
- Habitat
- Montane evergreen forests; 1000-1500m
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- Smithsonian Gardens Orchid Collection
- Common Name
- The Wenshan Cymbidium
- Group
- [vascular plants]
- Class
- Equisetopsida
- Subclass
- Magnoliidae
- Superorder
- Lilianae
- Order
- Asparagales
- Family
- Orchidaceae
- Subfamily
- Epidendroideae
- Genus
- Cymbidium
- Species
- wenshanense
- Smithsonian Gardens
- Topic
- Orchids
- Living Collections
- Record ID
- ofeo-sg_2020-0136A
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ax7dda555f4-4a55-4494-8c9b-e6772780c108
