Chinese cymbidium-Can't read the name.

[DelawareJim]

Quay;

On your first picture, the first character is Chun. The 3rd and 4th are Lian Ban. Not sure about the 2nd.

I just remembered I have Matthew's Cymbidium retail price list and it has both English and Chinese charater names. Send me your e-mail address and I'll send it to you.

Cheers.
Jim

[Call_Me_Bob]

Originally Posted by s.kallima

I mainly saw pictures of Lian Ban with and without markings on the labellum, plus you said earlier in this post that you had a tag with written Lien Ban var alba!

Sorry for the confusion. I have tags that say "'Lien Ban'" and tags that say 'Var alba' There aren't any that say 'Lian Ban var alba'

[King_of_orchid_growing:)]

Regarding the hand written labels...

You've already seen the characters Chuen Lan (aka Spring Orchid - denoting Cymbidium georingii).

The next 2 characters are pronounced "bai hua", which literally means "white flower". 100% sure, without a doubt.

[s.kallima]

Originally Posted by Call_Me_Bob

Sorry for the confusion. I have tags that say "'Lien Ban'" and tags that say 'Var alba' There aren't any that say 'Lian Ban var alba'

Ok, then I think we can say that the first plants with the printed tag are Lian Ban, and the ones with the hand written are an alba form of goeringii

[Call_Me_Bob]

Thanks for all the help you two! I just got an email back from Matthew and you are correct! I have 'Lian Ban' and var alb. Now that we know what they are, anyone who is interested please give me a call!

[kevin1217]

For the second tag, the first character is white, and the second character is flower. Hope that helps!

Edit: Didnt notice phillip already answered!

[Call_Me_Bob]

found pictures of them online-

'Lian Ban'



var. alba

[aboutblank]

I just registered to answer your question.
春蘭蓮瓣 is traditional Chinese character
the simplified form should be 春兰莲瓣
春=spring 蘭=orchid 蓮=lotus 瓣=petal
it means Lotus-petal-shaped spring orchid
there are thousands varieties can be included in this group
蓮瓣=lian ban(Chinese pinyin)

---------- Post added at 02:49 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:44 AM ----------

according to Chinese national standards, the formal English name for莲瓣兰 should be Cymbidium lianpan Tang et Wang. lianpan is Wade-Giles romanization for 莲瓣, the same as lianban.
I've no idea about "Tang et Wang".
The English name "Cymbidium lianpan Tang et Wang" first came up in a book written in 1991.

[flexdc]

Originally Posted by DelawareJim

Quay;

On your first picture, the first character is Chun. The 3rd and 4th are Lian Ban. Not sure about the 2nd.

I just remembered I have Matthew's Cymbidium retail price list and it has both English and Chinese charater names. Send me your e-mail address and I'll send it to you.

Cheers.
Jim

I read Chinese and the 3 & 4 Characters are not Bai Hua.
It is definitely pronounced 'lian ban'
Andrew

[james mickelso]

Sheesh!!! You guys are good!!!