Provisional Awards

Long Beach, CA, September 23, 2019

Catasetum Edgardo A. Pauneto ‘Suki’s Frilly Jade’ HCC/AOS 75 pts.
© Arthur Pinkers 2019
 Plant Name: Catasetum Edgardo A. Pauneto ‘Suki’s Frilly Jade’ HCC/AOS 75 pts.
Parentage: (Ctsm. Frilly Doris x Ctsm. lucis)

Natural Spread Horizontal: 4.5 cm Vertical: 5.0 cm
Dorsal Sepal
Width: 1.7 cm Length: 3.4 cm
Petal Width: 1.8 cm Length: 2.3 cm
Lateral Sepal (Synsepal): Width: 1.8 cm Length: 2.7 cm
Lip (Pouch): Width: 1.0 cm Length: 2.0 cm

Description: Ten flowers and two buds on one 47.0-cm arching inflorescence; sepals and petals clear medium yellow-green, sepals finely spotted maroon throughout, petals barred and blotched maroon throughout; lip saccate, tri-lobed, white centrally, clear medium yellow-green peripherally and in indentation, callus proximal to indentation spotted and barred maroon, keel distally on midlobe, margin deeply serrate; column white densely spotted maroon; substance very firm; texture satiny.
Exhibitor: The Thornton Conservatory
Catasetum Edgardo A. Pauneto ‘Suki’s Frilly Jade’ HCC/AOS 75 pts.Inflor
© Arthur Pinkers 2019
Epidendrum Panama Ruby ‘Thornton Ruby Beetle’ HCC/AOS 77 pts.
© Arthur Pinkers 2019
 Plant Name: Epidendrum Panama Ruby ‘Thornton Ruby Beetle’ HCC/AOS 77 pts.
Parentage: (Epi. medusae x Epi. porpax)

Natural Spread Horizontal: 4.0 cm Vertical: 5.0 cm
Dorsal Sepal
Width: 1.7 cm Length: 2.2 cm
Petal Width: 1.0 cm Length: 2.3 cm
Lateral Sepal (Synsepal): Width: 0.15 cm Length: 2.0 cm
Lip (Pouch): Width: 2.6 cm Length: 2.1 cm

Description: Two flowers on one inflorescence; plant mounted on a 23.0-cm piece of Cork Oak with sphagnum moss; sepals oblanceolate, olive green, distal third blushed light purple; petals linear, olive green distal half blushed light purple; lip purple, medially broadly olive green; column olive green becoming light purple distally, anther cap olive green; substance hard; texture satiny.
Exhibitor: The Thornton Conservatory