Taiping in Ilan County have much larger bulbs and blooms than those of other areas, so their bulbs were harvested in huge quantities by orchid merchants, at the rate of over a million each year.
太平山一葉蘭就因為球莖與花朵遠大於阿里山等地區，曾遭蘭商大量採取帶苞種球外銷，每年數量高達上百萬個。