The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Cymbidium ensifolium
Also called Four Season Orchid
Fukien Orchid is a small, grass-leaved Asian orchid that grows on trees or rocks and is often sold as a houseplant. It needs bright, cool-to-mild conditions and careful watering to bloom reliably.
Cymbidium ensifolium, the four-season orchid, is a species of orchid, also known as the golden-thread orchid, spring orchid, burned-apex orchid and rock orchid. It has a number of different cultivars of interest to orchid collectors. The genome of this species has been sequenced in 2021.
Aloe-leafed Cymbidium · Two-colored Cymbidium · Channelled boat-lip orchid · Green-flowered Cymbidium · Cymbidium cochleare · Day's Cymbidium · Ivory-colored Cymbidium · Cymbidium elegans · Cymbidium erythraeum · Red Column Cymbidium · Cymbidium faberi · Cymbidium floribundum
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cymbidium ensifolium by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
