Cymbidium canaliculatum in bloom

[OrchidLover1982]

Photo of my favourite clone of Cymbidium canaliculatum blooming.

Cymbidium canaliculatum by zorbathegreek1982, on Flickr

Cymbidium canaliculatum by zorbathegreek1982, on Flickr

[brianwstephens]

Wow!!! Such a display, great growing!

[OrchidLover1982]

Thanks. They need plenty of sunlight and dislike over watering or media staying wet for any length of time (especially winter). Ceramic pots dry out quicker so seem to be better for growing this species than plastic.

[WhiteRabbit]

Fabulous!

[dendro king]

These are native where I live in the NT, so of course I have one. Funny enough I repotted mine and there were a dozen or so cockroaches that had been munching the spikes and roots, grrrrr! Yous looks lovely I hope mine has an abundance of spikes like that oneday!

[smweaver]

Those are wonderful. I'm quite envious since I've not been able to find the standard-flowered form of this species over here (var. sparkesii isn't terribly difficult to locate, but the green and brown flowered types aren't readily available--at least not in my experience).

I'm curious to know whether or not the blooms are fragrant.

Congratulations on the lovely flowers.

[OrchidLover1982]

The blooms are quite fragrant like vanila.

There are so much flower variation in canaliculatum. I know what you mean everyone seems to be after sparksii but even sparksii is variable and there are many more colour variants than just sparksii. Many of which are more interesting to me than sparksii.

[Suri85]

I have a canaliculatum from my student days in Perth. I brought it to Jakarta but haven't seen it in bloom. The seller told me it the sparkesii type

[OrchidLover1982]

sparksii is the darker flowered form with solid dark colour apart from the labellum. I like the variations in canaliculatum. Extremely variable species as far as flower form and colour.

[OrchidLover1982]

Here's a photo of sparksii I took at a show the other day