Provisional Awards

San Diego County Orchid Show In the Park, San Diego, CA, October 27, 2018

Epidendrum peperomia ‘Big Beetle’ AM/AOS 81 pts.
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 Plant Name: Epidendrum peperomia ‘Big Beetle’ AM/AOS 81 pts.
Parentage: Species

Natural Spread Horizontal: 2.0 cm Vertical: 2.8 cm
Dorsal Sepal
Width: 0.5 cm Length: 1.3 cm
Petal Width: 0.2 cm Length: 1.2 cm
Lateral Sepal (Synsepal): Width: 0.4 cm Length: 1.2 cm
Lip (Pouch): Width: 1.8 cm Length: 1.3 cm

Description: Twenty-six flowers and thirty-seven buds on sixty-three inflorescences one well grown scandent plant growing on a plank within a 15.0-cm wood basket; sepals and petals chartreuse, sepals heavily blushed maroon, petals lightly blushed maroon; lip chartreuse, heavily overlaid maroon on proximal seven eights; column chartreuse; substance heavy; texture crystalline, lip glossy.
Exhibitor: Debora Halliday
Vanda roeblingiana ‘Burning Bush’ AM/AOS 81 pts.
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 Plant Name: Vanda roeblingiana ‘Burning Bush’ AM/AOS 81 pts.
Parentage: Species

Natural Spread Horizontal: 5.3 cm Vertical: 5.0 cm
Dorsal Sepal
Width: 1.5 cm Length: 2.7 cm
Petal Width: 1.6 cm Length: 2.6 cm
Lateral Sepal (Synsepal): Width: 1.4 cm Length: 2.9 cm
Lip (Pouch): Width: 2.2 cm Length: 2.8 cm

Description:
Exhibitor: Jack Li