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• n  any of various plants of the genus Cymbidium having narrow leaves and a long drooping cluster of numerous showy and variously colored boat-shaped flowers; extensively hybridized and cultivated as houseplants and important florists' flowers

• On a 4,500-acre ranch near Santa Barbara and on an estate in Australia, he raises cymbidium orchids for florists.
• Last week I counted more than 30 different varieties of cymbidium (those are the tall ones with the spiky leaves) during one casual stroll through the stalls--enough to put anyone .

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News & Articles

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• Your Garden: Variety of orchids can be overwhelming
  This cymbidium variety is named 'Herbert George Alexander.' Orchid breeder Eliot Atstupenas says Alexander was 'one of the most famous and most prolific cymbidium hybridizers of all time.'
  March 16, 2014 - The Fayetteville Observer