Cymbidium floribundum
Floribundum varies in colour from a pure colour green to browns and reds. It flowers readily making a beautiful specimen. This is a very small growing plant with a scape of 15 - 40 cm carrying between 6 and 45 closely spaced 3 - 4 cm flowers.
Culture
We grow and flower this species under shadecloth in Melbourne. If flowers in October for us.
Habitat
On rocks in shaded gorges, often in pine forest, or in full sun, but also recorded as an epiphyte.
Distribution
S China, Taiwan, Northern Vietnam, 800 - 2800m
Synonyms
C pumilum, C illiberale, C floribundum var. pumilum
Primary Hybrids
pumilum (floribundum) x canaliculatum = Brown Beauty
floribundum x dayanum =
Doctor Chang-Chin
pumilum (floribundum) x eburneum = Naganeb
pumilum (floribundum) x elegans = Ides of March
pumilum (floribundum) x erythrostylum = Cherry Blossom
pumilum (floribundum) x faberi = Oriental Step
pumilum (floribundum) x grandiflorium (hookerianum) = God Only Knows
floribundum x iridioides = Enchanting
floribundum x mastersii =
Tersilum
floribundum x mastersii = Starry Sky
pumilum (floribundum) x parishii (sanderae) = Tea Time
pumilum (floribundum) x sinense = Hoosailum
pumilum (floribundum) x suave = Scallywag
pumilum (floribundum) x tracyanum = Tiger Baby
pumilum (floribundum) x tracyanum = suavissimum pro sp
pumilum (floribundum) x tigrinum = Tiger Moth
pumilum (floribundum) x niveomarginatum = Ichiro Otuka
devonianum x pumilum (floribundum) = Miss Muffet
ensifolium x pumilium (floribundum) = Elma
goeringii x pumilum (floribundum) = Petite
lowianum x pumilum (floribundum) = Pumilow
insigne x pumilum (floribundum) = Minuet
madidum x pumilum (floribundum) = Pee Wee
