Cymbidium question

[Cym Ladye]

Those are both growths. Your plant would do better if you could cover the top roots to avoid them drying out. Covering the base of the pseudobulb also allows the new roots from the emerging growths to immediately get their tender tips into the media.

New growth eyes emerge from the bottom 1/4 of a pseudobulb or green growth. I always recommend for that reason, as well as for stability of the plant, that the bulb be buried to that point.

When was the last time you repotted your plant? There appear to be an abundance of roots on the surface, many dead, to be coming from only one green growth. Are these dead roots by any chance off the BB that has no leaves?

Cym Ladye