Orchid as one of the four famous flowers, the limelight far overshadows, plum blossoms, bamboo, chrysanthemums, in ancient times, literati and inkers like to write orchids into poetry and song. It has a flowing leaf and a long fragrance, and has a considerable number of fans since ancient times.
After dozens or hundreds of years of rapid development, the orchid industry has discovered and cultivated thousands of excellent varieties, creating endless wealth for future generations of orchid players. However, the development of the orchid industry still needs the injection of fresh blood, especially new varieties, in the orchid-producing area, thousands of people go up and down the mountain every year, and breed new products and orphan products from hundreds of thousands of downhill grasses.
A corner of the orchid market
From the current orchid aesthetic point of view, whether it is a new product or a traditional famous product, color, fragrance, rhyme, posture, petals are necessary, all five are heirloom fine products, five have two or three for the top product, five are none for the next product.
Judging from the traditional fine products excavated, there are still many varieties that meet this requirement, taking Chunlan as an example, the fine products that I am more optimistic about belong to Chunlan Jiang's lotus, and belong to the impeccable classics in the color fragrance posture.
Ginger lotus belongs to the typical short species of pink lotus petals, the leaves are generally between 10 and 24 cm, the tip is very round, and often twisted, such a grass type can not think of lotus petals are difficult.
The flower descended in 1988 in Wenshan, Yunnan. It was selected and bred by an orchid lover surnamed Ginger from the grass down the mountain.
This orchid lover surnamed Jiang has studied orchids deeply, and in the era before the petal type theory was published, he already knew how to observe the quality of flowering through leaves.
A double-flowered Ginger lotus
At that time, when Jiang Mou collected this grass, through the analysis of a very round leaf tip, this flower was very likely to bloom a lotus petal flower. However, how round the lotus petal is, what color the outer lobe is, and whether the tongue is vegetarian or not, cannot be judged by the leaves.
Therefore, he carefully cultivated this flower, and in the second year, the old seedling faded and was replaced by a special new seedling. At this time, there were also lotus petals, and the roundness of the buds was completely unexpected, which also confirmed his original inference. In the first month of 1989, the flower bloomed for the first time, only to see a huge and thick lotus petal standing in front of his eyes, and the outer petals were ruddy, and the dark red tendons were freshly visible. The flap is tightly hugged, and the tongue is a large round tongue, which is not vegetarian. This flower is one arrow and two flowers, and after all bloom, it is full of fragrance.
Master Lan was also thrilled by the fact that he had received a unique treasure, which was a wealth given to him by Heaven. He decided to spend the rest of his life guarding the flower. This variety was also under his careful management, and the seedlings gradually increased.
Jiang Shihe, who sold 2.5 million yen that year
At that time, there was neither a modern greenhouse nor a high-tech growing medium like today's, and the flowers were basically self-configured humus soil. Therefore, although the seedlings are being sprouted, the return to the seedlings is also fast, and there are also many senior Lan friends during the period who hope that Jiang Mou can endure the pain of cutting love, but Jiang Mou has always politely refused on the grounds of the scarcity of the number.
In 1995, Kunming, Yunnan province held the fifth orchid expo, at this time Jiang Mou's hand of Jiang Shi lotus bloomed again, under the persuasion of many orchid friends, he agreed to take a pot to participate in the exhibition, which is a pot of two seedlings with a variety of arrows. At the exhibition, it attracted many friends from inside and outside the province and foreign countries.
Among them is a foreign orchid friend who is a senior Japanese orchid family named Takaki Kamiya.
Through the information review, it was found that Mr. Takaki Kamiya was born into a Japanese orchid family and was also an orchid farmer in his ancestors. Later, after inheriting the mantle, he devoted himself to the development of the orchid business in Japan. However, Japan's land area is small, and there are only a few places in the country that produce orchids, and the fragrance of Japanese orchids is relatively strange, far less than the fragrance of Chinese orchids.
The charm of Jiang's lotus
By chance, Mr. Takaki Kamiya has been exposed to Chinese orchids many times and has been in love with spring orchid petal flowers, especially lotus petals. Therefore, as long as the Lan Exhibition is held in China, no matter how far away, he is going to go.
Before 1995, Mr. Kamiya had collected a lot of Chunlan names to bring back to China for cultivation. This visit to Kunming once again made him experience the magic of oriental orchids. At the booth, he stared at Jiang's lotus foot for several hours, no matter from the aspect of color, fragrance, rhyme, posture and petal, it was a unique masterpiece. You know, the traditional petal-like flowers are almost turquoise, the color is very single, and the orchid in front of you is the pink that everyone loves. From the perspective of appreciation, it is natural to be several notches higher.
After learning the ins and outs of this flower from the owner of the orchid, Mr. Kamiya decided to return to Japan in several seedlings anyway, so that it could develop in the country, just like the Empress of Chunlan: Green Cloud.
After a long period of consultation, the two sides finally reached an agreement, and the two seedlings were sold for 2.5 million yen, which was converted into more than 200,000 yuan with the exchange rate of the current year.
Ginger Lotus
It should be known that in 1995, the monthly salary of the vast majority of employees was only between 200 and 300 yuan, and this more than 200,000 yuan could be said to be a huge amount at that time.
But the owner of the orchid did not sell all the flowers, and there were still a few seedlings of old grass in his hand, in his words, these seedlings of old grass would not be sold no matter how much money they paid, because he could not let such a unique fine tree be lost overseas. After decades of cultivation, finally in the spring of 2007, this heirloom Yunnan Orchid once again entered people's vision.
However, due to the violent fluctuations in the orchid market this year, the transaction price of this flower is much inferior to that of the petal-shaped flower at the peak time, and even so, the transaction price is also amazing.
Multi-flowered Ginger Lotus
Nowadays, Jiang Shihe has also developed and grown throughout the country, a few years ago, all over the country orchid exhibition, this flower has been exhibited, but also won many times special gold award, gold award, in the hearts of the lan people, he has been irreplaceable fine products, is a classic flower that can be passed down from generation to generation.