| Cymbidium insigne, forma album | photo C. Solimbergo |
| taxonomy | described by | Rolfe, Robert Allen |
| published in | The Gardeners' Chronicle & Agricultural Gazette 3 35 ( 1 ) : 387 1904 | |
| forma album | described by | Gruss, Olaf & Wolff, Manfred |
| published in | Orchid Atlas 97 2007 | |
| taxonomy | family | Orchidaceae |
| subfamily | Epidendroideae | |
| tribe | Cymbidieae | |
| subtribe | Cymbidiinae | |
| genus | Cymbidium Swartz 1799 | |
| chromosomes | 2n = 40 | |
| metabolism | CAM pathway, stomata of the leaves are open at night. | |
| (K.Silvera, L.S. Santiago, J.C. Cushman, K. Winter - International Symposium on Plant Biology, August 2013) | ||
| it is useful give the soluble mineal nutriens, on the roots. | ||
| native of | origins | primary cloud forests, in Viet Nam (Annan, Kon Tum), Thailand (Loei, Phy Huang), China (Hainan) |
| altitude | 1000 - 2600 m (3300 - 8580 ft) | |
| habitat | climate informations from Kon Thun (Kon Thun, Viet Nam) | |
| Köppen climate classification : Cfa, humid subtropical climate in all seasons, with very hot summers | ||
| the weather station data (temperatures are calculated for an altitude of 1800 m / 5940 ft) : | ||
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| photoperiod | in Kon Thun this orchid bloom with a photoperiod, that varies during the year, from 12 h 57 m' to 11 h 03 m' | |
| life form | geophyte in sandy or stony soil | |
| brightness | sunny | |
| inflorescence | length | 110 - 120 cm (44" - 48"), basal |
| nr flowers | 12 - 14 | |
| size | single flower 6 L 7 (2.4" L 2.8") - inflorescence 22 L 12 cm (8.8" L 4.8") | |
| duration | inflorescence ≈ days | |
| time | to bloom from birth, ≈ 120 days | |
| CITES | appendix | II |
