Provisional Awards

Long Beach, CA, February 25, 2019

Paphiopedilum Fumi's Delight ‘Sunset Valley Orchids’ FCC/AOS 90 pts.
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Plant Name: Paphiopedilum Fumi's Delight ‘Sunset Valley Orchids’ FCC/AOS 90 pts.
Parentage: (Paph. armeniacum x Paph. micranthum)

Natural Spread Horizontal: 9.4 cm Vertical: 9.8 cm
Dorsal Sepal
Width: 3.4 cm Length: 4.0 cm
Petal Width: 4.5 cm Length: 5.0 cm
Lateral Sepal (Synsepal): Width: 2.8 cm Length: 3.4 cm
Lip (Pouch): Width: 5.5 cm Length: 6.8 cm

Description: One very flat flower of exceptional size and color on one 25.0-cm inflorescence and one bud on a second immature inflorescence; sepals and petals bright yellow, veins oxblood, partially tessellated, petals very round; pouch cream, broadly overlaid yellow and lightly brushed oxblood giving a tan appearance; staminode cream proximally, bright yellow distally, overlaid brilliant oxblood in a triangular pattern with base along distal margin; substance firm; texture crystalline.
Exhibitor: Fred Clarke
Paphiopedilum Fumi's Delight ‘SVO Canary Gold’ AM/AOS 85 pts.
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Plant Name: Paphiopedilum Fumi's Delight ‘SVO Canary Gold’ AM/AOS 85 pts.
Parentage: ((Paph. armeniacum x Paph. micranthum)

Natural Spread Horizontal: 9.5 cm Vertical: 10.5 cm
Dorsal Sepal
Width: 3.0 cm Length: 3.8 cm
Petal Width: 4.7 cm Length: 4.5 cm
Lateral Sepal (Synsepal): Width: 2.5 cm Length: 3.6 cm
Lip (Pouch): Width: 5.8 cm Length: 6.0 cm

Description: One brightly colored, large flower on one 30.0-cm upright inflorescence; sepals yellow veined oxblood distally; petals bright yellow, veins oxblood, partially tessellated, darker on superior half, lightly blushed oxblood, distal margins undulate; pouch bright yellow; staminode cream proximally, bright yellow distally, overlaid oxblood in a triangular pattern with base along distal margin; substance firm; texture crystalline.
Exhibitor: Fred Clarke
Paphiopedilum Fumi's Delight ‘SVO Sunshine’ HCC/AOS 78 pts.
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Plant Name: Paphiopedilum Fumi's Delight ‘SVO Sunshine’ HCC/AOS 78 pts.
Parentage: ((Paph. armeniacum x Paph. micranthum)

Natural Spread Horizontal: 8.0 cm Vertical: 9.0 cm
Dorsal Sepal
Width: 2.80 cm Length: 3.8 cm
Petal Width: 4.0 cm Length: 4.0 cm
Lateral Sepal (Synsepal): Width: 2.5 cm Length: 3.5 cm
Lip (Pouch): Width: 4.6 cm Length: 6.0 cm

Description: One brightly colored flower on one 13.0-cm upright inflorescence; sepals yellow; petals superior half bright yellow, inferior half yellow, sparse fine oxblood spotting proximally, veins light oxblood, partially tessellated; pouch light yellow; staminode round, cream blushed light pink proximally, bright yellow distally, overlaid oxblood in a horse shoe shape centrally, spotted oxblood distally; substance firm; texture crystalline.
Exhibitor: Fred Clarke
Paphiopedilum Saint Swithin ‘Sunset Valley Orchids’ FCC/AOS 90 pts.
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Plant Name: Paphiopedilum Saint Swithin ‘Sunset Valley Orchids’ FCC/AOS 90 pts.
Parentage: (Paph. philippinense x Paph. rothschildianum)

Natural Spread Horizontal: 19.0 cm Vertical: 24.5 cm
Dorsal Sepal
Width: 5.5 cm Length: 7.6 cm
Petal Width: 1.3 cm Length: 19.2 cm
Lateral Sepal (Synsepal): Width: 4.8 cm Length: 7.5 cm
Lip (Pouch): Width: 2.5 cm Length: 5.4 cm

Description: Five very flat, large, beautifully presented flowers and one bud on 53.0-cm strong upright inflorescence; sepals white, lightly blushed green-yellow distally, veined black-burgundy, dorsal sepal orange-red basally; petals green-yellow veined black-burgundy, margins burgundy, ciliated, proximally undulate; pouch green-yellow, veins darker green-yellow, lightly blushed burgundy centrally; staminode green-yellow overlaid orange-red, darker distally, sides hirsute; substance very firm; texture satiny.
Exhibitor: Fred Clarke
Paphiopedilum Saint Swithin ‘Sunset Valley Orchids’ FCC/AOS 90 pts. Inflorescence
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Cattleya Mini Blue Star ‘SVO Blues’ HCC/AOS 78 pts.
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Plant Name: Cattleya Mini Blue Star ‘SVO Blues’ HCC/AOS 78 pts.
Parentage: (C. Cornelia (1893) x C. Mini Purple)

Natural Spread Horizontal: 12.0 cm Vertical: 12.1 cm
Dorsal Sepal
Width: 2.1 cm Length: 7.0 cm
Petal Width: 4.9 cm Length: 6.6 cm
Lateral Sepal (Synsepal): Width: 2.1 cm Length: 6.2 cm
Lip (Pouch): Width: 4.2 cm Length: 5.6 cm

Description: Two large, flat flowers presented on a short inflorescence; sepals and petals white brushed light lavender, petals more intensely along margins; lip encircling the column, white, throat brushed light lavender, yellow under the column, bell overlaid dark lavender, picotee margin light lavender; column white; substance firm, texture crystalline.
Exhibitor: Fred Clarke
Paphiopedilum venustum fma. measurianum ‘Venus Rising’ AM/AOS 82 pts.
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Plant Name: Paphiopedilum venustum fma. measurianum ‘Venus Rising’ AM/AOS 82 pts.
Parentage: Species

Natural Spread Horizontal: 9.0 cm Vertical: 7.0 cm
Dorsal Sepal
Width: 3.5 cm Length: 3.5 cm
Petal Width: 2.3 cm Length: 4.2 cm
Lateral Sepal (Synsepal): Width: 2.5 cm Length: 3.0 cm
Lip (Pouch): Width: 2.5 cm Length: 4.0 cm

Description: One flower on one 13.0-cm inflorescence; sepals white, veined dark green; petals yellow, veined green on proximal seven eighths, distal eighth becoming light yellow, superior margin slightly undulate, margin ciliate; pouch yellow, boldly veined dark green; staminode light green, veined dark green; substance heavy; texture satiny.
Exhibitor: Harold Koopowitz - Paph Phactory
Maxillaria bradeorum ‘Violet Sunburst’ CHM/AOS 82 pts.
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Plant Name: Maxillaria bradeorum ‘Violet Sunburst’ CHM/AOS 82 pts.
Parentage: Species

Natural Spread Horizontal: 5.8 cm Vertical: 7.0 cm
Dorsal Sepal
Width: 1.0 cm Length: 5.0 cm
Petal Width: 1.0 cm Length: 4.0 cm
Lateral Sepal (Synsepal): Width: 1.1 cm Length: 5.0 cm
Lip (Pouch): Width: 0.5 cm Length: 1.0 cm

Description: Four flowers on four 3.0-cm inflorescences, emerging from the leaf axis of new growths; plant mounted on a 5.0-cm diameter by 63.0-cm long piece of tree fern, supported in a 16.0-cm plastic pot containing quartz rock; five to six leaves with lengths from 17.0 cm to 33.2 cm and width up to 49. cm; growths originate from the base of an existing pseudobulb or from the older rhizome developing an extend rhizome with pseudobulbs developing, inflorescences are initiated basally, up to four, on the maturing growth; Inflorescences have three segments, each with its own bract up to 6.5 cm long; sepals and petals cream becoming yellow-cream on distal quarter, overlaid rose-magenta distally with cream picotee margin; lip white, yellow spot proximally overlaid orange, centrally becoming orange-yellow, midlobe orange-yellow, crest orange-yellow distally; column white, orange-yellow basally, ventral surface orange-yellow overlaid with bright orange spot, dorsal surface overlaid with small orange striation centrally, anther cap white; substance firm; texture matte; three light green bracts cover inflorescence; country of origin – Panama; pending SITF confirmation; commended for large flowers and pleasingly colored stellate flowers.
Exhibitor: Don Goss
Maxillaria bradeorum ‘Violet Sunburst’ CHM/AOS 82 pts. flower
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Maxillaria bradeorum ‘Violet Sunburst’ CHM/AOS 82 pts. Inflorescence
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Dendrobium Falling Embers ‘Rising Sun’ HCC/AOS 79 pts.
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Plant Name: Dendrobium Falling Embers ‘Rising Sun’ HCC/AOS 79 pts.
Parentage: ((Den. fuliginosum x Den. Ida Mary)

Natural Spread Horizontal: 4.0 cm Vertical: 3.5 cm
Dorsal Sepal
Width: 0.6 cm Length: 2.0 cm
Petal Width: 0.5 cm Length: 1.5 cm
Lateral Sepal (Synsepal): Width: 0.8 cm Length: 1.8 cm
Lip (Pouch): Width: 0.5 cm Length: 0.7 cm

Description: One hundred four resupinate flowers and four buds on twenty-two 6.0-cm pendulous inflorescences; sepals and petals light yellow-green, sepals partially veined maroon proximally, overlaid maroon distally, petals finely spotted maroon, very dense distally; lip light yellow-green spotted and overlaid maroon proximally and on side lobes, midlobe white spotted medially light purple overlaid light purple paralleling undulated margin with white picotee; column yellow green spotted and overlaid maroon; substance firm; texture satiny.
Exhibitor: Michelle Dobard