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Pure's Wax Orchid
Of show-winning quality, beautiful Vanda orchids originated in Southeast Asia and are therefore warm-growing specimens. Pureโs Wax Vanda orchid, registered by Pure Orchard, produces abundant spikes with brilliant, 4.5-inch dark gentian blue/violet flowers with waxy lateral sepals. They grow from a single stem (monopodial), and the roots stretch out from the base of the stem. Aerial roots roam free of their containers and can grow up to 2 meters long.
In ideal conditions, you can expect numerous spikes with colors so bright that you may need sunglasses to look at them. The flowers are extremely showy and last well in the warm temperatures, bright, filtered light, and high humidity of greenhouses. They require a lot of water throughout the growing season but should be allowed to become relatively dry during the winter. They have a clever trick to let you know when to water. When they are white, they are thirsty; when they are green, they have enough water.
The orchid family consists of a large number of genera, each with its own unique characteristics. A common characteristic, however, is the basic form of the flower, which consists of three petals surrounded by three sepalsโoften in dramatic and contrasting colors and in a variety of shapes and sizes. Although some orchids are native to temperate zones, most orchids tend to prefer a semitropical or tropical environment (USDA Zones 9-11) and have epiphytic rootsโmeaning they derive moisture and nutrients from the air and support from another plant; few orchids grow in soil. Orchids usually prefer a diurnal temperature fluctuationโmeaning warmer days and cooler nightsโthough the absolute temperature range (cool, intermediate, or warm) varies by genus and is consistent with their natural habitat. While requiring adequate sunlight for a stunning bloom display, most orchids will not tolerate sustained direct sun.
Many varieties have pseudobulbs, a portion of the stem between leaf nodes that stores water to help sustain the plant through dry periods. Other varieties are monopodial, meaning upward growth is from a single growing point.
There is an exception to almost every general statement one can make about orchids. The family continues to challenge taxonomists.
๋ฐ๋ค ์คํค๋ (๋)์ ๋๋จ ์์์๊ฐ ์์ฐ์ง์ด๊ณ ๋ฐ๋ปํ ์ง์ญ์์ ์๋ผ๋ ํ์ข ์ ๋๋ค. ํจ์ด์ฆ ์์ค ๋ฐ๋ค ์คํค๋ ๋ ํจ์ด ์ค์ฐจ๋์ ์ํด ๋ฑ๋ก๋์๋๋ฐ, ์ฌ๋ฌ๊ฐ์ ๊ฝ์๋ฃจ์์ 4.5์ธ์น ํฌ๊ธฐ์ ๊ฒํฐ์๋ ๋ฐ์ด์ฌ๋ ์ (๊ฐ์ง์)์ ๊ฝ๊ณผ ๋ฏธ๋๋ฏธ๋ํ ์์ผ๋ก ๋์ด ๊ฝ๋ฐ์นจ์ ํผ์๋๋ค. ๊ธฐ๊ทผ์ ํ๋ถ๊ณผ ์๊ด์์ด ์๋ผ๊ณ 2๋ฏธํฐ๊น์ง ์๋๋๋ค.
์ด์์ ์ธ ์กฐ๊ฑด์์๋ ๊ฝ์๋ฃจ ์๊น์ด ๋๋ฌด ํ๋ คํด์ ๋ณด๋ ค๋ฉด ์ ๊ธ๋ผ์ค๊ฐ ํ์ํ ์ ๋๋ก ์๋ฆ๋ต์ต๋๋ค. ๋งค์ฐ ํ๋ คํ ๊ฝ๋ค์ด์ง๋ง, ๋ฐ๋ปํ ์จ๋, ๋ฐ์ ๋น, ์จ์ค์ ๋์ ์ต๋์ ์กฐ๊ฑด์ด ๋ง๋๋ค๋ฉด, ์ค๋ ๋์ ์ง์๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ฑ์ฅ๊ธฐ์๋ ๋ง์ ๋ฌผ์ด ํ์ํ๊ณ , ๊ฒจ์ธ์๋ ์๋์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ง๋ฅธ ์ํ๊ฐ ์ ์ง๋์ด์ผ ํฉ๋๋ค. ์์ธํ ๋ณด๋ฉด ๋ฌผ์ค๋๋ฅผ ์ฝ๊ฒ ์์๋ณผ ์ ์๋๋ฐ, ํ์ ๋ ๋ฌผ์ด ํ์ํ๊ณ , ์ด๋ก์์ผ ๋๋ ๋ ์ค ํ์๊ฐ ์์ต๋๋ค.
