Cymbidium canaliculatum photo C. Solimbergo |
taxonomy | desribed by | Brown, Robert |
published in | Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae 331 1810 | |
family | Orchidaceae | |
subfamily | Epidendroideae | |
tribe | Cymbidieae | |
subtribe | Cymbidiinae | |
genus | Cymbidium Swartz 1799 | |
chromosones | 2n = 40 | |
metabolism | CAM pathway, stomata of the leaves are open at night. | |
(K.Silvera, L.S. Santiago, J.C. Cushman, K. Winter - International Symposium on Plant Biology, August 2013) | ||
it is useful give the soluble mineal nutriens, on the roots. | ||
native of | origins | eucalypts open forests in Australia (New South Wales, Kimberly, Northern Territory, |
Melville Island, Queensland, East cost, Geraldton, Johnstown) | ||
altitude | 5 - 900 m (16 - 2970 ft) | |
habitat | climate informations from Mudgee (New South Wales, Australia) | |
Köppen climate classification : Cfb, humid subtropical climate in all seasons, with hot summers | ||
the weather station data (temperatures are calculated for an altitude of 450 m / 1485 ft) : | ||
photoperiod | in Mudgee this orchid bloom with a photoperiod, that varies during the year, from 14 h 09 m' to 9 h 51 m' | |
life form | epiphyte or geophyte | |
brightness | sunny to full sun | |
inflorescence | length | 40 cm, pendulous |
nr flowers | 24 - 26, fragrants | |
size | single flower 4 L 3,5 cm (1.6" L 1.4") – infiorescenza 28 L 9 cm (11.2" L 3.6") | |
duration | ||
time | to bloom from birth, ~ 100 days | |
CITES | appendix | II |