Provisional Awards

San Diego County Orchid Show In the Park, San Diego, CA, January 27, 2019

Amesiella minor ‘Windflower’ AM/AOS 80 pts.
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 Plant Name: Amesiella minor ‘Windflower’ AM/AOS 80 pts.
Parentage: Species

Natural Spread Horizontal: 3.0 cm Vertical: 4.2 cm
Dorsal Sepal
Width: 0.8 cm Length: 2.0 cm
Petal Width: 0.8 cm Length: 1.7 cm
Lateral Sepal (Synsepal): Width: 1.0 cm Length: 1.8 cm
Lip (Pouch): Width: 0.9 cm Length: 1.3 cm

Description: Thirteen well-presented flowers on seven inflorescences approximately 3.5cm long; sepals and petals white; lip white, yellow striping proximally on midlobe, spur white 2.9 cm, column white, anther cap white; substance light; texture crystalline.
Exhibitor: Betty Kelepecz
Dendrobium Hilda Poxon ‘Joan Mickelson’ CCM/AOS 86 pts.
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 Plant Name: Dendrobium Hilda Poxon ‘Joan Mickelson’ CCM/AOS 86 pts.
Parentage: (Den. speciosum x Den. tetragonum)

Natural Spread Horizontal: 6.2 cm Vertical: 8.2 cm
Dorsal Sepal
Width: 0.5 cm Length: 4.8 cm
Petal Width: 0.25 cm Length: 3.9 cm
Lateral Sepal (Synsepal): Width: 0.7 cm Length: 4.5 cm
Lip (Pouch): Width: 0.5 cm Length: 1.4 cm

Description: Seven hundred fifty flowers and twenty-nine buds on twenty-nine approximately 29.0-cm long inflorescences on thirty-two 17.5-cm to 46.0-cm well-grown, upright canes in a 20.0-cm wide by 16.0-cm high plastic pot; sepals and petals yellow-green, sparsely spotted magenta; lip white, spotted magenta, side lobes blotched magenta, central callus yellow; column pale green; substance moderate; texture matte.
Exhibitor: Tom Biggart