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Cold-growing Cymbidium

Cymbidium kanran

Also called Hanran

Cold-growing Cymbidium
Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Keisotyo assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Orchid
Native range
S. China to NW. Vietnam and WC. & S. Japan
Climate
subtropical

About

Cymbidium kanran, the cold-growing cymbidium, is a species of orchid in the family Orchidaceae. The species was first described by Tomitaro Makino in 1902 and was first domesticated over 2,500 years ago. It is native to South Central China, Southeast China, Hainan, Japan, Korea, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Tibet, and Vietnam.

Other Cymbidium plants

Aloe-leafed Cymbidium · Two-colored Cymbidium · Channelled boat-lip orchid · Green-flowered Cymbidium · Cymbidium cochleare · Day's Cymbidium · Ivory-colored Cymbidium · Cymbidium elegans · Fukien Orchid · Cymbidium erythraeum · Red Column Cymbidium · Cymbidium faberi

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cymbidium kanran by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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