What is Noble orchid?
[[Image:Cymbidium goeringii 2.jpg|frameless|250px|right]] The '''Noble Orchid''' (''Cymbidium goeringii'') is a [[Hardiness (plants)|cold hardy]] [[evergreen]] [[Orchid]].<ref name=BBPE>{{cite web |url=http://botanyboy.org/cymbidium-goeringii-a-cold-hardy-terrestrial-orchid-from-east-asia/ |title=Cymbidium goeringii, a cold hardy terrestrial orchid from east Asia |publisher=Botany Boy Plant Encyclopedia |access-date=21 November 2015}}</ref> It is a [[Wikt:dwarf|dwarf]] plant that [[wikt:bloom|bloom]]s in the [[Spring (season)|spring]].<ref name=Croix130>I F La Croix; Manuel Aubron, ''The New Encyclopedia of Orchids: 1500 Species in Cultivation'' (Portland, OR: Timber Press, 2008), p. 130</ref> Its [[petal]]s are [[green]], [[yellow]]-green or [[brown]]. It has [[pseudobulbs]] found below [[ground]].<ref name=Croix130/> The leaves are long and grass-like with [[wikt:serrated|serrated]] [[Wikt:edge|edge]]s.<ref name=Croix130/> It is found growing as far [[north]] as [[Okushiri Island]] (42 degrees [[north]] [[latitude]]).<ref name=BBPE/> It can stand [[freezing]] [[temperature]]s over the [[winter]] months.<ref name=BBPE/> It has been grown in [[China]] for over 2500 years,<ref name=Croix130/> dating back before the time of [[Confucius]].<ref name=CCCB>{{cite web |url=https://www.aos.org/Default.aspx?id=458 |title=Cymbidiums - Cool Climate Beauties |publisher=American Orchid Society |access-date=21 November 2015 |archive-date=1 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151001221537/http://www.aos.org/Default.aspx?id=458 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In [[Japan]] it has been cultivated for several hundred years. In [[Europe]] the earliest records date it to 1780.<ref name=CCCB/> == References == {{reflist}} {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Orchids]]