Provisional Awards

Long Beach, CA, May 22, 2017

Dendrobium hancockii ‘Little Saigon Gold’ HCC/AOS 78 pts.
© Arthur Pinkers 2017
Plant Name: Dendrobium hancockii ‘Little Saigon Gold’ HCC/AOS 78 pts.
Species

Natural Spread Horizontal: 5.2 cm Vertical: 3.2 cm
Dorsal Sepal
Width: 1.1 cm Length: 2.8 cm
Petal Width: 1.1 cm Length: 2.8 cm
Lateral Sepal (Synsepal): Width: 1.0 cm Length: 3.2 cm
Lip (Pouch): Width: 1.6 cm Length: 2.6 cm

Description: Three hundred and sixty flowers and two buds on two hundred and forty inflorescences on over eighty bamboo like canes; plant 140.0-cm diameter by 100.0 cm tall, robust, clean with few bare canes, very pot-bound grown in mix of medium fir bark, seedling coconut chips and perlite in a 20.0-cm plastic pot; flower base color butter yellow, lip overlaid lime green basally, anther cap lighter yellow; substance medium; texture semi-glossy; plant also received an 85 point CCM/AOS, award number 20174779.
Exhibitor: Ha Bui
Dendrobium hancockii ‘Little Saigon Gold’ CCM/AOS 85 pts.
© Arthur Pinkers 2017
Plant Name: Dendrobium hancockii ‘Little Saigon Gold’ CCM/AOS 85 pts.
Species

Natural Spread Horizontal: 5.2 cm Vertical: 3.2 cm
Dorsal Sepal
Width: 1.1 cm Length: 2.8 cm
Petal Width: 1.1 cm Length: 2.8 cm
Lateral Sepal (Synsepal): Width: 1.0 cm Length: 3.2 cm
Lip (Pouch): Width: 1.6 cm Length: 2.6 cm

Description: Three hundred and sixty flowers and two buds on two hundred and forty inflorescences on over eighty bamboo like canes; plant 140.0-cm diameter by 100.0 cm tall, robust, clean with few bare canes, very pot-bound grown in mix of medium fir bark, seedling coconut chips and perlite in a 20.0-cm plastic pot; flower base color butter yellow, lip overlaid lime green basally, anther cap lighter yellow; substance medium; texture semi-glossy; plant also received an 78 point HCC/AOS, award number 20174777.
Exhibitor: Ha Bui
Mormodes buccinator ‘Pink Perfection’ AM/AOS 82 pts.
© Arthur Pinkers 2017
Plant Name: Mormodes buccinator ‘Pink Perfection’ AM/AOS 82 pts.
Species

Natural Spread Horizontal: 5.0 cm Vertical: 4.5 cm
Dorsal Sepal
Width: 0.6 cm Length: 3.0 cm
Petal Width: 1.1 cm Length: 3.8 cm
Lateral Sepal (Synsepal): Width: 0.7 cm Length: 2.3 cm
Lip (Pouch): Width: 0.9 cm Length: 2.7 cm

Description: Eighteen flowers on one horizontal arching inflorescence; sepals and petals orange-yellow finely spotted burgundy through-out; lip light pink, spotted fine magenta; column yellow-cream, very finely spotted magenta, anther cap brushed magenta; substance firm; texture crystalline.
Exhibitor: Michelle Dobard