Cymbidium orchid Flowers

The beloved Cymbidium orchid yields bountiful tall spikes of many exquisite flowers amid elegant grassy-leaved foliage and short, fat, egg-shaped pseudobulbs.

Plants can stay in bloom for 3 months; the waxy long–lasting flowers make classic corsages and are a commercial cut-flower industry.

Flowers come in just about every shade except blue and purple. The 45 species range from low to high elevations of India to Japan down to Australia, often in exposed habitats in full sun. Some, such as Cymbidium ensifolium, Cymbilium sinense, and cymbidium kanran, are intensely fragrant. While traditional hybrids are large cool-growing hybrids.

The generic name of the cymbidium orchids is from the Greek for “hull of a boat”, referring to the boat-shaped lip.

Cymbidium orchid

Cymbidium orchid

Cymbidium orchid

Cymbidium orchid

Cymbidium orchid

Rose Kardinal

A rose is a flowering shrub of the genus Rosa, and the flower of this shrub. There are more than a hundred species of wild roses, all from the northern hemisphere and mostly from temperate regions. The species form a group of generally prickly shrubs or climbers, and sometimes trailing plants, reaching 2–5 metres tall, occasionally reaching as high as 20 metres by climbing over other plants.

Nerine Flowers

Nerine is a genus of plants belonging to the Amaryllidaceae family. Native to South Africa, there are about 30 different species in the genus. Nerine have been widely cultivated and much hybridized and are now spread world wide.

It is a bulb plant, with each bulb being about 3–5 cm in diameter. In late winter and spring the plant produces several strap-shaped, dull green leaves, about 20 cm long and 1 cm broad, arranged in two rows. The leaves die down by late spring and the bulb is then dormant until late summer.

In fall each bulb produces a single naked stem about 30 cm tall which bears a cluster of 2 to 12 funnel-shaped pink flowers at their tops. Each flower is about 4 cm diameter.

Overall the plant has similar growing characteristics to the Belladonna Lily, though it is much smaller. Another similar plant is the Lycoris.

Nerine

Nerine

Nerine

Nerine

Nerine

Nerine