CSA-Journal-2016-04
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done. In 20<strong>04</strong> I tried a new primary hybrid<br />
and crossed Cym. wenshanense with Cym.<br />
tortisepalum var. longibracteatum, called<br />
‘Spring Sword’ by traditional cymbidium<br />
growers in Sichuan. Depicted are the actual<br />
parent plants (Figures 18 and 20). The<br />
transition from protocorm over slim mycorrhizomes<br />
to shoots was relatively short<br />
under standard conditions (illumination<br />
and normal epiphyte media), despite the<br />
development of rather long hairy rhizomes<br />
(photo 21). After one year the seedlings<br />
had outgrown the flasks and could be deflasked<br />
in January 2006 (photo 22). The<br />
first flowers appeared in January 2009. Being<br />
my first cymbidium hybrid I named it<br />
about a year later after my first born child,<br />
Isabell Perner, as Cym. Hengduan’s Isabell<br />
Fig. 22 Seedlings of Cym.<br />
tortisepalum var. longibracteatum<br />
x Cym. wenshanense on modified<br />
V&W medium 18 months after<br />
sowing.<br />
Fig. 23 (Right) Seedling of<br />
Cym Hengduan's Isabell (Cym.<br />
tortisepalum var. longibracteatum<br />
x Cym. wenshanense) in flower.<br />
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