Unkown cymbidium

[juliaT]

Hello everybody!
I just found this cymbidium with 60% discount. But I have no idea of which type it is.
Could anybody help me ifentifying it? At least if it is an australian one
Thanks!!!

[estación seca]

Hi Julia, It doesn't look much like it has much Australian ancestry. Those flowers tend to be smaller, with narrower segments. Also they are usually fragrant.

It's hard to say whether yours requires late summer cool nights to bloom, or not. Next August - September see if you can put it someplace with definitely cool nights. That triggers the standard kinds of hybrids to bloom.

There are extensive threads here on how to grow Cymbidiums.

[Roberta]

It looks to me like a standard (intermediate) Cym.... It's not one of the warmer growing Aussie Cyms, if that is the question. It may have some of those in the ancestry to provide a plant that needs less of a winter chill to bloom. The fact that it is blooming now could indicate that it came from an Australian hybridizer... such plants more often bloom in the spring, and if it came from Australia it would have its seasons opposite of the northern hemisphere. However, growers do mess with temperature and light to get plant to bloom when they want to sell them. Otherwise, quite impossible to identify - may hybrids look similar.

[Cym Ladye]

With all due respect estación seca I believe you are referring to the Asian Cym species and their primary hybrids, not the Aussie hybrids which are as varied in type as those in the US.

In regard to bloom time, Cymbidiums bloom according to the longitude and latitude where they are currently growing as their growth/bloom cycle is determined by light, temperature and rain, not the country from which they originated. If the genetic makeup of a plant has it bloom in the fall in Australia, it will bloom in the fall in the US.

As to what you have Julia, it appears to be a Standard Cymbidium. Once you have lost a tag, just enjoy your plant for what it is. I recommend using Cym. hyb. ign. with a cultivar name of your choice in single quotes. Some people call them NOIDS and others call them WIGNII. Your choice.

[estación seca]

Originally Posted by Cym Ladye

...I believe you are referring to the Asian Cym species and their primary hybrids, not the Aussie hybrids which are as varied in type as those in the US.

Yes, I should have been more clear. Typing on the phone makes me lazy sometimes. I meant it doesn't look like species native to Australia are in its ancestry. It looks like the more common hybrids of southeast Asian species, which require a late summer cooling down period to flower.

[Cym Ladye]

Julia, I frankly suspect a fairly ordinary, complex hybrid of multiple, unknown ancestry. Since you live in England, I doubt it has immediate Aussie parentage and with no name, impossible to find out. Pretty flower for you to enjoy, however.