Provisional Awards

San Diego, CA, February 5, 2019

Dendrobium Regal Vista ‘Margaret Scott’ AM/AOS 80 pts.
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 Plant Name: Dendrobium Regal Vista ‘Margaret Scott’ AM/AOS 80 pts.
Parentage: (Den. Regal Gillieston x Den. speciosum ssp. Curvicaule)

Natural Spread Horizontal: 5.2 cm Vertical: 7.2 cm
Dorsal Sepal
Width: 0.7 cm Length: 4.2 cm
Petal Width: 0.6 cm Length: 2.8 cm
Lateral Sepal (Synsepal): Width: 0.95 cm Length: 3.1 cm
Lip (Pouch): Width: 0.9 cm Length: 1.4 cm

Description: Five hundred seventy well presented flowers on thirty-eight 21.0-cm to 27.0-cm arching inflorescences; sepals and petals light yellow-green, darker distally, finely speckled purple proximally; lip cream veined purple, more intense on midlobe along midvein; column light yellow-green blushed purple on dorsal surface, speckled and blotched maroon on ventral surface keels blushed light maroon, anther cap white; substance firm; texture crystalline.
Exhibitor: Neal Grant
Paphiopedilum Macabre Venus ‘SVO Royal Basin’ HCC/AOS 78 pts.
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 Plant Name: Paphiopedilum Macabre Venus ‘SVO Royal Basin’ HCC/AOS 78 pts.
Parentage: (Paph. Macabre x Paph. venustum)

Natural Spread Horizontal: 9.8 cm Vertical: 7.1 cm
Dorsal Sepal
Width: 4.0 cm Length: 3.4 cm
Petal Width: 2.1 cm Length: 4.9 cm
Lateral Sepal (Synsepal): Width: 2.5 cm Length: 3.0 cm
Lip (Pouch): Width: 2.5 cm Length: 4.2 cm

Description: One very flat flower well presented on one 11.2-cm inflorescence; sepals white, veined green; petals light yellow overlaid green basally becoming yellow-green proximally transitioning to rose distally, veins darker than the overlaid color, spotted black-purple, margin hirsute; pouch cream-yellow blushed rose, veined green surface puberulent; staminode light yellow veined dark green surface puberulent; substance firm; texture waxy.
Exhibitor: Arthur Pinkers
Paphiopedilum wilhelminae ‘Egger’ AM/AOS 82 pts.
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 Plant Name: Paphiopedilum wilhelminae ‘Egger’ AM/AOS 82 pts.
Parentage: Speices

Natural Spread Horizontal: 12.8 cm Vertical: 9.5 cm
Dorsal Sepal
Width: 3.0 cm Length: 4.4 cm
Petal Width: 1.0 cm Length: 7.6 cm
Lateral Sepal (Synsepal): Width: 1.8 cm Length: 3.5 cm
Lip (Pouch): Width: 1.8 cm Length: 4.8 cm

Description: Two well presented flat flowers on one 30.0-cm upright inflorescence; sepals white veined distinctly very dark brown; petals very dark brown symmetrically twisted; pouch light green overlaid brown, veined darker brown; staminode light green-cream overlaid dark maroon centrally, reverse black hirsute; substance firm; texture glossy.
Exhibitor: David Brown
Paphiopedilum wilhelminae ‘Egger’ AM/AOS 82 pts. Inflor
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