Studies on wild orchid flower resources and their appreciation of Dinghushan Mountain

This paper investigated the wild resource of orchid flowers of Dinghushan mountain.The results show that: The wild orchid flower resources in this area are rich and have high ornamental value with 43 species in 27 genus which divided into 3 life types including terrestrial type, epiphytic type and half-epiphytic type. The wild orchid flower in this area are classified as 3 ornamental types including flowering plants, foliage plants, flowering and foliage plants and most of them are flowering and foliage plants. The paper also studied on the appreciation of them and assessed through scoring criteria of 13 ornamental indicators based on analytic hierarchy process (AHP). The Comprehensive Evaluation were used to determined different ornamental gradations of the wild orchids flowers in Dinghushan mountain and found that there are 28 species (percent of the total number of wild orchids is 65.1%) which have very high and high ornamental value (ornamental grades are Grade玉and Grade域). Accordingly, rational recommendations on exploitation and utilization of wild orchid flower resources in Dinghushan mountain areproposed