Scientific name: Pleione bulbocodioides
Alias: A leaf orchid
Family: Orchidaceae perennial herb
Morphological characteristics:
When a single garlic orchid blooms, a leaf grows next to the flower and is therefore called a leaf orchid. The name of the single garlic orchid comes from its pseudobulb shaped like a garlic head.
Birth or epiphytic; pseudobulb ovoid or conical, 2 cm to 3 cm long, flowering from April to June; upright inflorescences 15 cm to 25 cm tall, flowers usually single, lilac or pink, lip There are mostly dark purple spots on the petals.
This blue plant is dwarf, pseudopellet oval or bottle-shaped, spring leaves and flowers appear together, or after flowering, leaves on both sides or sides of the pedicel, there is a single garlic blue orchid and orchid leaves alone garlic blue Other varieties, autumn and winter deciduous, residual pseudobulbs spring arrows blossom. There are http://>rose red, purple, yellow, white and other colors. Each flower is about as big as a thumb, extremely bright, with a deep, dark lip, about 12 centimeters in height, a thick paper with folds, and some with a yellow or white line art.
distributed:
Located in the broad valleys of the Yangtze River basin and the south of China, under the broad-leaved forest above 900 meters above sea level.
This is a terrestrial blue, produced in the deep mountains of various provinces and regions south of the Yangtze River basin, especially in Yunnan.
Growth habits:
Hi warm and moist and semi-negative environment.
Peat, moss or humus soil planting shallow pots should be well ventilated and drained well. Gradually fall into dormancy in autumn, until the leaves dry and the basin soil remains dry until the next spring begins to germinate.
use:
The unique garlic head is suitable for planting miniature bonsai, which is used as a desk decoration for indoor flowers.
The pseudobulb, which is also known as its "garlic head", is a medicinal herb that has a detoxifying effect.
Common species: There are white flowers alone garlic blue, yellow flower alone garlic blue, Taiwan alone garlic blue, Sichuan alone garlic blue and so on.
The single garlic orchid should be regarded as a native orchid in China. There are about 16 species in the whole clove, and 15 species are distributed in China. In China, we can find traces of clove plants from Taiwan to Tibet.
Although the homeland of Duanlanlan is in China and in some neighboring countries, Duanlanlan is also very favored in European and American countries. Probably because westerners first discovered that the only garlic orchid is in Nepal, and its flowers are somewhat like crocuses. Therefore, in English, the single garlic orchid is called “Napalesecrocusesâ€; in English, it There is another way to call it "window-sillor chids". This is probably because it is easy to grow garlic and it is often placed on the windows of ordinary homes. In addition, there are other names such as "Peacock Orchid".
In the West, there are quite a few “fans†who grow garlic alone. They have collected a large number of garlic varieties. The famous Chelsea Flower Show in the United Kingdom has awarded awards for the outstanding exclusive garlic orchid varieties. Recently, the British Royal Botanical Garden-Kew Garden scholars also published a monograph on exclusive garlic orchids. It can be seen that this oriental orchid has already had considerable influence in the West.
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