Shunran (English name: Riverstream orchid)

This really is a lovely flower.

Absolutely lovely...gone on favourites.....

Delicate colouring.

beautiful, i love this colour, i had a lime green Cymbidium a few years back, but it died, i find them quite hard to keep. i have been told that the key is to shock them to re-flower, by leaving them out side for the summer and bringing them in just before first frosts so that they get the cold of a night and then into the warm. - but it did'nt work for me, what is your secrite?

Hi Majeekahead, Sorry for late return.
This native orchid, 'Shunran' isn't included in 'Cymbidium' we say by name in Japan, but i don't know if you are so in UK too, or not.
Is 'lime green Cymbidium' you say as same as 'Shunran and the like, or Cymbidium cultivar to borne more than ten flowers a stem ? Shunran and the like borne only one flower on the top of stem
Will you tell me which to choose 'Shunran' and the like or Cymbidium cultivar for showing you suitable hints?

Thanks Tsuyoshi, the ones i have tried are definately Cymbidium, and had lots of heads on the stem. any advice you have would be very much appreciated.

Thanks Majeekahead, The most important care you have to do is picking some pointed buds (or shoots) to shoot out newly from the sides of bulbs, leaving one shoot per one bulb, which grows to a bulb after 1 - 2 yr and borne flowers.
If you will not pick shoots, you can't see any flower. If you will do this, you can leave the pot under a suitable circumstaces for 2 - 3 yrs. Did you do such care as picking new pointed shoots in every year ?
Perhaps, it would be another problem that it died. Let's discuss about this as the other problem.