The orchid Cymbidium Christmas Beauty is a hybrid registered with the Royal Horticultural Society by Sherman in 1958.
Top three species ancestors and their influences are

• Cymbidium erythrostylum (50.00%)  section: Annamaea 
• Cymbidium tracyanum (18.75%)  section: Cyperorchis 
• Cymbidium insigne (18.75%)  section: Cyperorchis