How to identify fine-leaved stone peach

1. Rhizome

The fine-leaved stone peach has a creeping rhizome. Usually, pseudobulbs will be formed about 1-3 cm apart, and roots will also grow sparsely on the nodes. The pseudobulbs are narrowly ovate to ovate-oblong, about 1-2 cm long and 5-8 mm wide.

2. Blades

The leaves of the fine-leaved stone peach grow at the top, are linear-lanceolate or linear, papery, about 2-8 cm long, 5-7 mm wide, with a short acuminate or nearly acute tip, and the edges often curl outward.

3. Flowers

The flower scape of the fine-leaved stone peach grows around the top of the tender pseudobulb. The raceme usually has more than 10 flowers. The bracts fall off early. The flowers are small, white or light yellow, and the petals are broadly ovate-rhombus or broadly ovate. The flowering period is in April every year.

4. Fruit

The fruit of the fine-leaved stone peach is obovate in shape, about 6-8 mm long and 4-5 mm wide, and the fruiting period is August-September every year.