This page presents a summary of our cymbidium and other outdoor growing breeding plants which we are using in our hybridizing program. These are used for breeding and display only and are generally not for sale. Photographs of many of the plants are included with three image sizes, a thumbnail about 80 x 60 pixels in size which is automatically displayed with the plant description (if image display is enabled),and links to a midsized image about 320 x 240 pixels in size and a 640 x 480 full sized image. Click on the thumbnail to see the full sized image or click on the name to see the midsized image. All images are jpeg compressed and the image size in kbytes for the large and midsized images is included for each so you can estimate the time required to download an image. If there is no link to a parent at the end of the descriptive text, we do not have a reference photograph of that plant available at this time. Photographs will be added as they become available.
We try to include the important characteristics of each plant and what we expect it to produce as a parent. Plant size is indicated by Lar, Med, or Sm for large, medium or small, type of plant is indicated by Std, Nov or Min for standard, novelty or miniature cymbidium, bloom season is the primary month of bloom in coastal California and ploidy is shown as 2N, 3N, 4N or 6N, or with ? if uncertain. Novelty plants have a miniature parent in the background, and the miniature parent and generation is indicated by P, E, D, C, S, M, O for pumilum (floribundum), ensifolium, devonianum, canaliculatum, sinense (hoosai), madidum or other. The number after the letter indicates first, second, etc. generation for the miniature species in the background.
The list of parents is divided into five separate sections, A - F, G - L, M - P, Q - S and T - Z which includes the parents other than cymbidiums. Links to each are provided below, and links to each of the sections is included in each section. Again, the plants pictured are generally not for sale. Enjoy!