A fairly small Cym with small (but fabulous!) blooms; cold to warm growing, likes a lot of sun! I have read that these
may be fragrant, but I haven't detected any fragrance from mine.
After four long years of waiting ...
- Some of you may remember I had posted a few months ago when I was so excited to have found spikes on this plant. There were two spikes - the first opened 2 of the five buds, the other three blasted
But now the second spike is blooming
The spike is near the center of the pot, so blooms don't display well, but I still love them!
I grow this outdoors year-round. It takes lows down to just below freezing for short periods on occasion, sheltered from frost or freeze, and now winter rain - the rain only because I hadn't been able to get this to bloom, and I was just trying to do something different. Winter is our rainy season, so my intent was to grow it slightly drier - never had any rot or root issues from it being in extremely wet weather. I don't know if it was the slightly drier winter that did the trick - it spiked in the fall following it's first drier winter - or if it was something else ...
It takes highs of upper 90s - slightly over 100 for short periods on occasion, but shaded during the hottest part of the day. A couple of years ago, it even took a heavy dumping of small hail.
The second to last photo is my seemingly ginormous thumb for size perspective.
The last photo is the dayanum next to a standard Cym
Thanks for looking
Cymbidium dayanum
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