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Botanical details
- Family
- Orchidaceae
- Native to the UK
- No
- Potentially harmful
- Genus
Cymbidium
- Genus description
Cymbidium are epiphytic, lithophytic or terrestrial orchids with prominent spherical to ovoid pseudobulbs, long linear leaves and fleshy white roots. Several long lasting showy flowers with a distinctive 3-lobed lip are borne on erect or arching flower spikes from the bases of the pseudobulbs
- Name status
Accepted
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