Provisional Awards

San Marino, CA, April 9, 2016

Cymbidium Les Platons ‘Patricia’ HCC/AOS 78 pts.
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Plant Name: Cymbidium Les Platons ‘Patricia’ HCC/AOS 78 pts.
(Cym. Red Beauty x Cym. Victoria Village)

Natural Spread Horizontal: 10.8 cm Vertical: 8.0 cm
Dorsal Sepal
Width: 5.0 cm Length: 8.0 cm
Petal Width: 4.0 cm Length: 6.5 cm
Lateral Sepal (Synsepal): Width: 5.0 cm Length: 7.3 cm
Lip (Pouch): Width: 4.8 cm Length: 7.0 cm

Description: Ten full, lightly cupped flowers on one upright inflorescence; sepals and petals cream, overlaid by very fine mist of burgundy spots, less dense and larger proximally, concentrated along veins; lip cream, side lobes spotted denser distally becoming coalesced along margin, midlobe overlaid burgundy-red along margin forming broad "V" pattern, veins broadly overlaid burgundy-red distally; column cream ventral surface spotted and blotched maroon, dorsal surface spotted maroon proximally becoming overlaid maroon distally, anther cap cream; substance very firm; texture matte, midlobe velvety.
Exhibitor: Burt M. Holstein
Cymbidium Canterbury ‘Coburg’ HCC/AOS 79 pts.
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Plant Name: Cymbidium Canterbury ‘Coburg’ HCC/AOS 79 pts.
(Cym. Princess Mary x Cym. canaliculatum)

Natural Spread Horizontal: 5.5 cm Vertical: 4.2 cm
Dorsal Sepal
Width: 1.2 cm Length: 3.9 cm
Petal Width: 1.2 cm Length: 3.1 cm
Lateral Sepal (Synsepal): Width: 1.4 cm Length: 3.3 cm
Lip (Pouch): Width: 1.3 cm Length: 1.9 cm

Description: Ninety-seven flowers and thirty buds on four mature arching inflorescences, one hundred forty-six buds on five immature arching inflorescences; sepals and petals cream overlaid pale burgundy proximally, more intense basally; lip cream, side lobes spotted burgundy along veins, crest yellow-cream lightly spotted burgundy, margins fuchsia picotee spotted fuchsia just inside of picotee; substance firm; texture matte.
Exhibitor: Huong Nguyen
Cymbidium Bill Quinn ‘Zoanh Nguyan’ HCC/AOS 79 pts.
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Plant Name: Cymbidium Bill Quinn ‘Zoanh Nguyen’ HCC/AOS 79 pts.
(Cym. parishii x Cym. Sussex Moor)

Natural Spread Horizontal: 6.0 cm Vertical: 5.4 cm
Dorsal Sepal
Width: 2.4 cm Length: 6.2 cm
Petal Width: 2.1 cm Length: 5.3 cm
Lateral Sepal (Synsepal): Width: 2.4 cm Length: 4.2 cm
Lip (Pouch): Width: 2.6 cm Length: 4.4 cm

Description: Thirty-two slightly cupped flowers on two arching pendulous inflorescences; sepals and petals pale green-yellow; lip pale yellow spotted maroon centrally overlaid dark maroon proximally; column slightly darker green-yellow than sepals and petals; substance firm; texture matte.
Exhibitor: Huong Nguyen
Cattleya intermedia fma. aquini orlata ‘Angela’ AM/AOS 87 pts.
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Plant Name: Cattleya intermedia fma. aquini orlata ‘Angela’ AM/AOS 87 pts.
Species

Natural Spread Horizontal: 12.5 cm Vertical: 12.7 cm
Dorsal Sepal
Width: 2.2 cm Length: 7.2 cm
Petal Width: 4.1 cm Length: 7.2 cm
Lateral Sepal (Synsepal): Width: 2.8 cm Length: 6.5 cm
Lip (Pouch): Width: 4.3 cm Length: 6.0 cm

Description: Seven well formed flowers on four upright inflorescences and four buds on two immature inflorescences; sepals and petals cream lightly blushed light magenta-purple basally; petals pelloric, light magenta-lavender overlaid magenta-lavender basally, flared dark magenta on apical half, nicely contrasting midvein cream centrally; lip white throat blushed light magenta, side lobe margins and midlobe dark lavender-purple, keels lavender-purple, reverse blushed lavender; column white blushed purple, darker proximally, anther cap white; substance heavy; texture waxy.
Exhibitor: Outhay Viengkhou
Paphiopedilum Johanna Burkhardt ‘Huntington's Majesty’ FCC/AOS 90 pts.
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Plant Name: Paphiopedilum Johanna Burkhardt ‘Huntington's Majesty’ FCC/AOS 90 pts.
(Paph. rothschildianum x Paph. adductum)

Natural Spread Horizontal: 11.8 cm Vertical: 18.5 cm
Dorsal Sepal
Width: 5.8 cm Length: 6.7 cm
Petal Width: 1.5 cm Length: 16.5 cm
Lateral Sepal (Synsepal): Width: 5.0 cm Length: 6.5 cm
Lip (Pouch): Width: 2.0 cm Length: 8.0 cm

Description: Three intensely colored, well presented flowers on one sturdy upright inflorescence; sepals chartreuse veins broadly overlaid dark chocolate brown, dorsal sepal rich dark chocolate brown centrally; petals will held, basally undulated, chartreuse, veins spotted dark chocolate brown becoming denser centrally and coalescing distally; pouch chartreuse overlaid red-brown on distal seven-eighths, veined darker red-brown; staminode light orange sides pubescent, dark maroon hairs; substance firm; texture waxy, pouch satiny.
Exhibitor: Huntington Botanical Gardens
Paphiopedilum Johanna Burkhardt ‘Huntington's Majesty’ FCC/AOS 90 pts. - flower
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Cattleya intermedia fma. aquini orlata ‘Angela’ AM/AOS 87 pts.
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Plant Name: Cattleya Cornelis' Love ‘Angela’ AM/AOS 81 pts.
(C. Cornelia (1893) x C. Love Knot)

Natural Spread Horizontal: 13.0 cm Vertical: 12.0 cm
Dorsal Sepal
Width: 2.1 cm Length: 6.7 cm
Petal Width: 4.5 cm Length: 7.0 cm
Lateral Sepal (Synsepal): Width: 2.3 cm Length: 5.9 cm
Lip (Pouch): Width: 4.2 cm Length: 5.9 cm

Description: Four nicely arranged flat flowers on two inflorescences; sepals and petals coerulea; lip tubular, coerulea, throat gold-yellow, narrow dark lavender band paralleling coerulea picotee on side lobes broadening over midlobe except near midvein where contrasting base color shows through paralleling midvein; column white; substance firm; texture crystalline.
Exhibitor: Outhay Viengkhou
Pelexia laxa ‘Huntington's Beanstalk’ CBR/AOS
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Plant Name: Pelexia laxa ‘Huntington's Beanstalk’ CBR/AOS
Species

Natural Spread Horizontal: 1.3 cm Vertical: 4.0 cm
Dorsal Sepal
Width: 0.5 cm Length: 1.8 cm
Petal Width: 0.2 cm Length: 1.8 cm
Lateral Sepal (Synsepal): Width: 0.1 cm Length: 2.0 cm
Lip (Pouch): Width: 0.6 cm Length: 1.3 cm

Description: One hundred eleven flowers and twenty-three buds on four erect 58.5-cm to 65.0-cm bright green inflorescences born terminally on four terrestrial growths in a 15.0-cm green plastic pot; three 14.5-cm by 6.0-cm narrowly acute, oblong-elliptic, oblique leaves, dark green with large grey-green blotch parallel to the midvein along the entire length on 28.0-cm deeply channeled brown-green peteol arranged in whorl from thick, very lanuginous root mass; dorsal sepal and petals partially fused, green forming a hood over column and lip; lateral sepals arching pendulous, light green becoming yellow-orange apically; lip white, reflexed and rolled; column pointed, cream , anther cap brown; substance firm; texture matte, dorsal reverse pubescent; commended for excellent growth of a species rarely seen in exhibition; obtained from a nursery in Colombia; pending taxonomic verification from SITF.
Exhibitor: Huntington Botanical Gardens
Pelexia laxa ‘Huntington's Beanstalk’ CBR/AOS - Flower
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