Cymbidium aloifolium

[Luv2lopeqhs]

This is my first crack at a cymbidium....got this species from a local grower here in Florida. It lives on my back screened-in lanai. Super happy it bloomed for me....it has probably 40 plus flowers on the spike...I am trying some more in the very near future!! Thanks to CymLadye for the recommendations
Kathy

[stompy]

This was my undergraduate project for my 3rd year botany BSc. I was a lazy bum and picked the Cymbidium aloifolium growing outside on a big banyan tree on the University grounds (this was when I was in Sri Lanka). The plant I studied was/is (it's still there 15 years later) a beast. It's some 5 feet in diameter and has at least 10 flower spikes at a given time. There are daughter plants all over the place. Literally growing out of walls. I started appreciating it more after I started studying it. Give it light and water and it will take off. You'd be hard pressed to kill it.

[estación seca]

It takes full Arizona summer sun through a cheap old glass window with no problem. That kind of sun could burn many cactus. It didn't turn a hair at 114 F / 46C outdoors in the shade. I'm going to see how much sun it can take outside.

[isurus79]

Originally Posted by estación seca

It takes full Arizona summer sun through a cheap old glass window with no problem. That kind of sun could burn many cactus. It didn't turn a hair at 114 F / 46C outdoors in the shade. I'm going to see how much sun it can take outside.

Whoa! That sounds like a tough plant!!

[mobelle]

They look pretty. Congrats!