Yay, Cyms flowering!!

[WhiteRabbit]

I have noid Cym hybrids that differ a fair amount in shape and size of blooms as well. Just depends on the parents.

[cricketerry]

Wjs2nd my apologies if I got the wrong idea. I had looked at Sienna's post and to me she was saying that the colour of all the plants was the same rather than the style/shape.

Originally Posted by Sienna

...............larity of the flowers. I have acquired my orchids from far and wide, mostly rescued from friends and family and the only orchids that have ever flowered for me have this same colour!!? There is another spike that is just starting to open today and it appears to be the same colour as well.

Never the less, I am still very excited!

[Wjs2nd]

Yes, but, understandable, I was clear in my first my post and can see how it could be confusing.

[Cym Ladye]

Originally Posted by cricketerry

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There are upright, pendulous and arching spikes and plants vary in size from ones that will flower in a 4" pot to massive plants where a single pseudobulb would not fit into that same 4" pot.

Not only do they vary in color and size but absolutely in flower shape (form), especially if you look at the many different forms found in the species and often carried into their first generation hybrids...... mastersii, erythrostylum, elegans and tracyanum to name but four of the better known species.

Behind all hybrids today is the selective breeding of many hybridizers with many different species to come up with the rounder, flatter form, the vibrant solid colors and the different blooming habits we find in the Cymbidiums most commonly sold today.

Cym Ladye