Cymbidium erythraeum

Requires day temperatures around 16°C and 10°C at night. Provide good light levels, but avoid direct sunlight. Pot firmly into epiphytic or terrestrial orchid compost, water thoroughly when compost is almost dry, allow to drain and use orchid fertiliser at every third watering. Water sparingly in winter. Place outside in dappled shade during the summer months to aid flower initiation. See cymbidium cultivation

Cut flowered stems down to base

Propagate by division of pseudobulbs

May be susceptible to aphids, glasshouse red spider mite, glasshouse whitefly and mealybugs

Generally disease-free