The selection and breeding of petal flowers in yilan by the ancients was limited to plums, lotuses, daffodils, and plains, and there were colored flowers, like the "red plum" of one of the five seats of Chunlan, which should be a red plum petal. In addition, there are records of cinnabar, xanthin, leukoxin, and chlorotusin on the Qur'an, which is obviously a recognition of color. However, for plum, lotus, daffodil art to tender green is precious, this is also a requirement for color. However, they do not approve of exotic flowers, butterfly flowers and leaf art.
Strange flowers, the earliest recognized is the spring orchid "green cloud", which still accounts for the light of the lotus petals, such as ordinary bamboo leaf petals will not be appreciated. The recognition of the neat butterfly and the sub-petal butterfly is around a hundred years, like the Spring Orchid Butterfly "Liangxi Butterfly" and "Old Butterfly", and the sub-petal butterflies have "Rare Butterfly", "Laughing Butterfly", "Hairpin Butterfly", "Dancing Butterfly", "Yang's Vegetarian Butterfly", "Shrew Butterfly", "Spring Butterfly". At this time, strange flowers were also gradually recognized, such as "Four Happy Butterflies", "Hehe Butterflies", "Yu Butterflies" and so on.
In the process of orchid selection and breeding in the past 40 years, as far as chunlan is concerned, there are many butterflies, the most representative of which are "Tiger Rui", "Great Dragon Rouge", "Gao Ming Rui Butterfly", "Da Yuan Bao", "Xiao Yuan Bao", "Panda Rui Butterfly", "Black Cat", "Black Tiger", "Baguio", "Sheng Shi Rui Butterfly" and so on.
Orchid varieties breeding and innovation, this is the basis for the gradual development, can not engage in denial or exclusivity, therefore, Chunlan "Liangxi Butterfly" and "Old Butterfly" its butterfly representative status is irreplaceable.
Chunlan traditional species "Old Butterfly" will be opened in 2021
Old butterfly
Floral: Spring orchid butterfly
Origin: Lanxi, Zhejiang.
History: In the early years of the Republic of China, it was selected by Shanghai Yang Xingsheng; later, because of the distinction between "Liangxi Rui Butterfly", it was renamed "Old Rui Butterfly". According to Mr. Zhao Lingmei's "Chinese Orchid Integration", in the spring of 1913, Yang Xingsheng of Lanxi, Zhejiang Province, found a butterfly petal spring orchid in Lanxi Bailuo Mountain, and later Yang named it "Rui Butterfly" according to its shape. Yang Xingsheng made a living by operating field property, and at the same time, Yang usually loved to make friends and was also helpful, and once sold his family property and flowers and trees for a lawsuit against his friends. Therefore, he did not leave many orchids in his later years, but his good reputation was full of Zhejiang. According to Zhang Peiyuan, the flower master of Ningbo Yang Zuchen's family, once he went to Ningbo to visit Mr. Yang Zuchen, and Mr. Yang opened the middle hall to greet him. It is said that everywhere he goes, everyone will be so rare.
Features: Compact plant type, semi-hanging and slender leaf posture. 4-6 leaves, the leaves are waxy, the leaf color is dark green, and it is shiny. The leaf surface is dark " V " shaped , with fine margin teeth. The leaf tips are sharp and prickly. The leaves are 30–35 cm long and 0.5–0.7 cm wide. Floral art, the outer three petals are slightly arched, the petals are 4 cm long and 0.7 cm wide, the three tongues stand tall, the end of the holding has two kinds of open products, the opening products that are not rolled for a long time show the beauty of abundance, the tongue diameter is 1 cm wide, the tongue surface is more white and faintly green and has three purple and red stripes, and it is rare to see another kind of regular intermittent color spots and dot distribution. Delicate fragrance.
Flower buds: slender, mercury red shell cloth purple ribs sparse top, sand color is good, shelling is good. The shell is hard and mercury red, purple and green, sandy, and sparsely ribbed.
Flower: The flower is light purple-red, the stem is pale green and impure, 10-15 cm high, 0.3 cm thick, and the flowers on the leaves are blooming.
Appreciation: the outer three petals are slightly arched, the petal length is 4 cm, the width is 0.7 cm, the three tongues stand tall, the end of the holding has two kinds of open products, the opening products that are not rolled for a long time show the beauty of abundance, the tongue diameter is 1 cm wide, the tongue surface is more white and faintly green and has three purple and red stripes, and it is rare to see another kind of regular intermittent color spots and dot distribution. A famous species of spring orchid butterfly.
Photographed by Wan Yunkun (Guo Xiangju) in February 2021
Description: Chunlan "Old Butterfly" will be released in 2021
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On May 16, 2021, Wan Yunkun was in Guoxiangju