Cym. sinense Yang Min Jin

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I got a bare-root Cymbidium sinense Yang Min Jin at the Tamiami show from Ten Shin Gardens. I have wanted to try these because I think I can give them what they want, including cool winters outdoors. Marty at the booth strongly emphasized cool, but not freezing, winter nights, and we discussed my usual temperatures. He thought they would be fine.

I chose this plant because it has all-green leaves. It was less expensive than the variegated ones. It has three pseudobulbs, and had two inflorescences when I bought it. TSA examined my luggage carefully. They broke off one flower stalk and damaged the other.

When I got home I went to the Ten Shin Web site and looked this one up. The photos on the Web site show variegated leaves. My plant not only had a name tag in the bag, it had a paper label stuck to the label with the same Chinese characters on the plastic label.

Does Yang Min Jin develop variegation later, when bigger?

I potted it into a tall ceramic container with LECA as medium. The roots extend more than 3/4 the way down the container.

I will add photos later.