Cymbidium aloifolium

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Although this species is frequently grown as a warm/hot tropical plant, it does equally well for me when it's treated as a more "typical" cymbidium (in other words, it takes the same cool winter night temperatures as my two Cymbidium eburneum plants). Two spikes this year, with around forty to fifty blooms and buds per spike.

There's no fragrance that I can detect; however, the abundant sugary deposits that each bud produces makes the plant a wasp magnet. I don't mind the wasps, but it did take some tricky maneuvering to temporarily dislodge them when I moved the plant indoors in order to take the pictures.

Steve
Cymbidium aloifolium on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Cymbidium aloifolium on Flickr - Photo Sharing!