Natural Habitat and Growth Characteristics of Wild Pholidota chinensis Lindl

The natural habitat, phenophases, and morphological characteristics of wild Pholidota chinensis Lindl were studied. The on-site environmental factors, such as temperature, light intensity, and humidity at the area where the plants were located, and the morphological characteristics, such as leaf length and width, pseudobulb length and counts per plant, and rhizome length and girth, of the plants were recorded. The results showed that P. chinensis grew in shady locations along a stream; flowered in April through May; developed fruits in October which ripened in following March; and, underwent no apparent dormancy period in a year.