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Plant Name: Epidendrum Pacific Trek ‘Cantelope’ AM/AOS 85 pts. Parentage: (Epi. Pacific Padre x Epi. Pacific Crest)
Description: Twenty-four flowers and eight buds arranged in a full ball distally on one inflorescence; sepals and petals bright orange-yellow, petal margins slightly crenulated distally; lip bright orange-yellow, paler centrally, margins incised; column bright orange-yellow, overlaid orange-red proximally; anther cap light green; substance firm; texture diamond dust. Exhibitor: Cal-Orchids Inc. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Plant Name: Cattleya Hawaiian Variable ‘Summer Splash’ AM/AOS 82 pts. Parentage: (C. Penny Kuroda x C. guttata)
Description: Forty-one slightly cupped and five buds on five inflorescences; sepals light green overlaid very lightly blushed maroon, pink apically, sparsely and finely spotted maroon; petals light pink flared purple on the distal half, lighter marginally; lip spade shaped, white, side lobes rolled over column, pink apically, midlobe intense purple; column white longitudinally lined purple, anther cap purple; substance very firm; texture waxy. Exhibitor: Santa Barbara Orchid Estate | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Plant Name: Phragmipedium Fritz Schomburg ‘Michelle’ HCC/AOS 79 pts. Parentage: (Phrag. kovachii x Phrag. besseae)
Description: One flower and one bud on one 20.5-cm inflorescence; sepals and petals yellow, dorsal sepal overlaid coral, petals overlaid coral, revealing yellow on proximal inferior eighth, finely ciliate coral; pouch yellow, ciliate coral, more densely along veins, inner rim bright butter yellow; staminode yellow overlaid coral centrally, coral cilia; substance medium; texture crystalline. Exhibitor: Orchids Limited | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Plant Name: Paphiopedilum Shin-Yi Michael ‘Summer Dreams’ HCC/AOS 78 pts. Parentage: (Paph. Susan Booth x Paph. Michael Koopowitz)
Description: Six flowers and two buds on two 41.5-cm inflorescences; dorsal sepal cream overlaid dark chartreuse, veined dark red-brown; synsepal cream overlaid light chartreuse, veined red-brown; petals chartreuse spotted red-brown proximally coalescing distally, margins spotted and warted, ciliated red-brown; pouch dark chartreuse veined red-brown; staminode chartreuse blushed red-brown centrally, sides hirsute red-brown; substance firm; texture waxy. Exhibitor: Santa Barbara Orchid Estate | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Plant Name: Epidendrum Pacific Islander ‘Mango’ AM/AOS 80 pts. Parentage: (Epi. Pacific Peacock x Epi. Pacific Redhots)
Description: Twenty-nine flowers on one upright inflorescence; sepals and petals magenta proximally transitioning to orange-pink distally dusted yellow marginally; lip pastel yellow proximally bordered by a magenta halo centrally, becoming orange-pink distally, callus yellow, margins incised; column dark magenta becoming yellow apically, anther cap yellow; substance medium; texture crystalline; noted for full flower head. Exhibitor: Cal-Orchids Inc. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Plant Name: Vanda falcata (hort. var. Hisui) ‘Midori’ CCM/AOS 84 pts. Parentage: Species
Description: Thirty-four flowers and sixteen buds on ten slightly arching inflorescences grown on a sixteen growth plant in a 12.0-cm clay pot on a moss ball; foliage clean, medium green accented purple proximally on mature leaves; sepals and petals light green; lip white; column white, anther cap translucent; substance firm; texture crystalline; also awarded an Award of Merit, 20174704. Exhibitor: Orchids Limited | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Plant Name: Vanda falcata (hort. var. Hisui) ‘Midori’AM/AOS 81 pts. Parentage: Species
Description: Thirty-four flowers and sixteen buds on ten slightly arching inflorescences grown on a sixteen growth plant in a 12.0-cm clay pot on a moss ball; foliage clean, medium green accented purple proximally on mature leaves; sepals and petals light green; lip white; column white, anther cap translucent; substance firm; texture crystalline; also awarded an Certificate of Cultural Merit, 20174703. Exhibitor: Orchids Limited | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Plant Name: Dendrobium cinnabarinum ‘Sycamore Creek’ CHM/AOS 85 pts. Parentage: Species
Description: Three flowers and two buds on three inflorescences borne from mature, deciduous canes on a 94.0-cm diameter plant of sixteen canes grown in a moss ball surrounded by large bark in a 15.0-cm teak wood basket; mature, deciduous 0.2-cm diameter canes up to 65.0-cm long with proximal third swollen to 0.7cm, slightly compressed, developing canes carry up to 16 leaves up to 1.7-cm wide by15.0-cm long, narrowly acuminate, linear-oblong, 3.0-cm petiole encircling cane; 0.5-cm inflorescences originating from cane joints near cane apex; sepals and petals cream spotted coral-orange proximally, coalescing on distal half, veined darker, lateral sepals falcate, fused proximally to forming a rounded spur encompassing the lip, veined maroon basally, petals rhombic, segment reverse similarly colored; lip tri-lobed, rolled forming trough, cream, side lobes veined maroon-purple near margin, tip narrowly acuminate; midlobe overlaid gold-yellow on proximal margin and centrally, overlaid dark maroon-purple distally along margin, entire margin deeply undulate, crest gold-yellow distally, sharply toothed; column white; substance medium firm; texture crystalline; country of origin is Borneo; pending SITF verification; noted for the desirability of coral-orange color. Exhibitor: Bill Robson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Plant Name: Cattleya Fuchsia Doll (2008) ‘Kaleidoscope’ HCC/AOS 79 pts. Parentage: (C. Orpetii x C. praestans)
Description: Two very flat flowers on two inflorescences; sepals and petals fuchsia; lip encircling the column, side lobes overlapping, white, throat yellow medially, bell dark magenta; column white, anther cap lavender; substance firm; texture crystalline. Exhibitor: Koopowitz, Harold - Paph Phactory |