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Plant Name: Vanda japonica ‘Yalan’ HCC/AOS 78 pts. Parentage: species
Description:Ten well-presented flowers on one 21.9-cm pendant inflorescence; sepals and petals ivory, brushed green basally; dorsal sepal single horizontal violet bar proximally; lateral sepals proximal half barred violet; petals porrect; lip Isthmus arched, centrally barred pink, midlobe spatulate, blotched pink, spur short, basally broad narrowing to apex sharply curved forward into Isthmus reverse; substance firm; texture matte. Exhibitor: Zhu, Baozhon (Jack) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Plant Name: Cymbidium Memoria Ruby Wasson ‘Easter Surprise’ HCC/AOS 78 pts. Parentage: (Cym. Jordan Kaplin x Cym. Fifi)
Description: Fifty-seven flowers and 13 buds on four arching, pendant inflorescences up to 60.3cm; sepals bright yellow, dorsal sepal centrally brushed red-brown, lateral sepals dorsal half lightly brushed red-brown; petals bright yellow, centrally very finely spotted red-brown, coalescing in a single stripe along the midvein, dorsal margin lightly brushed red-brown; lip clear bright yellow, calli darker gold yellow; column yellow, apically lightly brushed and finely spotted red-brown, ventral proximal half spotted dark red-brown, anther cap white; substance extremely firm; texture lightly crystalline. Exhibitor: Hatfield Orchids | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Plant Name: Cymbidium Don Brown ‘Minah Jean’ HCC/AOS 78 pts. Parentage: (Cym. Nagalex x Cym. suave)
Description: Twenty-three stellate flowers and ten buds on two arching, pendant inflorescences up to 25.2cm and 44 buds on four immature inflorescences presented on a diminutive plant in a 12.5-cm pot; base color yellow-green; sepals basally lightly speckled red; petals centrally spotted red; lip side lobes densely speckled red, midlobe spotted red; column basally and ventrally heavily speckled red, anther cap yellow; substance medium; texture crystalline. Exhibitor: Hatfield Orchids | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Plant Name: Dendrophylax fawcettii ‘Diamond Orchids’ AM/AOS 81 pts. Parentage: Species
Description: Three stellate flowers nicely arranged on one 14.5-cm arching, pendulous inflorescence borne on one 25.5-cm wide by 28.0-cm long and 3.8-cm tall leafless plant mounted on an 8.7-cm by 14.4-cm cedar slab; sepals elliptic, light olive green, subacute, lateral sepal inferior margin reflexed proximally; petals oblanceolate, acute, bent back at point of attachment, pale olive green, cream basally; lip spade shaped, side lobes triangular, folded together and connected to the column to form an tube becoming a 15.0-cm, green-yellow, gracefully arched, spur, side lobes yellow-green proximally, becoming cream distally, midlobe broadly bi-lobed, cream, prominent keel originating at the juncture of the side lobes going back into the spur, yellow-green tipped cream apically; column cream, wings forming fangs distally; substance medium; texture crystalline; SITF has confirmed as Dendrophylax fawcettii (Nov 2021); very distinctive species; matches the key in Ackerman's "Flora of the Greater Antilles" and photos in the IOSPE and the orchidroots.com; it is endemic to only one location in Grand Cayman. Exhibitor: The Thornton Conservatory | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Plant Name: Paphiopedilum Memoria Joan Levy ‘Thornton Death Star’ HCC/AOS 78 pts. Parentage: (Paph. stonei x Paph. gigantifolium)
Description: Four flowers on one 71.0-cm upright-arching inflorescence; sepals white broadly veined mahogany; petals narrowly falcate, almost forming a circle, white becoming gold-yellow proximally, spotted and blotched mahogany transitioning to dark mahogany-brown as spots and blotches become denser distally; pouch porrect, white, overlaid mahogany-purple distally; staminode cream lightly blushed chartreuse, margins hirsute mahogany; substance moderately firm; texture semi-glossy; ovary, long, green-cream; floral bracts up to 5.3 cm long dark mahogany-brown. Exhibitor: The Thornton Conservatory | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Plant Name: Paphiopedilum Booth's Supersuk ‘Laurie Susan Weltz’ FCC/AOS 92 pts. Parentage: (Paph. philippinense x Paph. Transvall)
Description: Nineteen large, flat well displayed flowers and seven buds on eight uprgiht inflorescences to 48.0 cm long; 60.0-cm diamter by 29.0-cm tall plant, very robust, clean, grown in a 30.0-cm clay low pot in a mix of fine and medium fir bark, medium horticultural charcole and #4 Perlite; inflorescences nicely distributed around the plant visible from all around; sepals chartreuse veined black-maroon, margin cream, ciliate; petals ensiform, narrower distally, gracefully twisted, cream, blushed rose distally, faintly veined chartreuse, spotted black-maroon along veins, margins undulated, warted with sparse lanuginose black hairs; pouch light charteuse proximally becoming darker distally, overlaid rose distally, veined darker rose; staminode cream proximally, chartreuse distally, centrally overlaid black-maroon, margins hirsute, black-maroon; substance firm; texture satiny; also awarded a 91 pt. CCE/AOS, 20215958. Exhibitor: The Thornton Conservatory | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Plant Name: Paphiopedilum Booth's Supersuk ‘Laurie Susan Weltz’ CCE/AOS 91 pts. Parentage: (Paph. philippinense x Paph. Transvall)
Description: Nineteen large, flat well displayed flowers and seven buds on eight uprgiht inflorescences to 48.0 cm long; 60.0-cm diamter by 29.0-cm tall plant, very robust, clean, grown in a 30.0-cm clay low pot in a mix of fine and medium fir bark, medium horticultural charcole and #4 Perlite; inflorescences nicely distributed around the plant visible from all around; sepals chartreuse veined black-maroon, margin cream, ciliate; petals ensiform, narrower distally, gracefully twisted, cream, blushed rose distally, faintly veined chartreuse, spotted black-maroon along veins, margins undulated, warted with sparse lanuginose black hairs; pouch light charteuse proximally becoming darker distally, overlaid rose distally, veined darker rose; staminode cream proximally, chartreuse distally, centrally overlaid black-maroon, margins hirsute, black-maroon; substance firm; texture satiny; also awarded a 92 pt. FCC/AOS, 20215957. Exhibitor: The Thornton Conservatory | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Plant Name: Oeceoclades splendida ‘Tustin’ CBR/AOS 0 pts. Parentage: species
Description: Thirty-three flowers and one bud slightly bunched on the upper third of a branched, 51.5-cm upright inflorescence borne basally on the lead growth of a five growth plant plus emerging new growth grown in a terrestrial mix in an 20.0-cm plastic bulb pan; growths spherical, slightly squat, ribbed, pumpkin like; leaves elliptic, acute, rounded, mottled grey-green and dark green, same on reverse; inflorescence four segmented, branched racemiform, 51.5 cm long with a 0.8 cm basal diameter; sepal and petals spatulate, yellow-green, lateral sepals held horizontal, petals porrect; lip cream, side lobes yellow-cream veined rose, midlobe broadly bi-lobed, cream veined and brushed rose, margin picotee dark rose, nectary tubular, bilobed distally, yellow-green, green-yellow distally; column yellow-green, anther cap yellow-cream; substance very firm; texture satiny; ovary green; country of origin Madagascar; SITF has confirmed as Oeceoclades splendida (Nov 2021); the species is very similar to O. humbertii, but O. humbertii has smaller flowers and four lanceolate leaves on the terminal pseudobulb and therefore is probably deciduous, where as O. splendida has mostly only one (sometimes two) oval, flat leaves which persist for a number of seasons; this plant shows only one leaf per pseudobulb and the leaves fit the description and photos almost exactly; size of the flower segments are in range for O. splendida; midlobe, if flattened, is a match to the line drawing in the original description. Exhibitor: Gayle Brodie | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Plant Name: Encyclia incumbens ‘Gayle’ HCC/AOS 76 pts. Parentage: species
Description: Four hundred seventy-four flowers and 51 buds on two slightly arched, branched inflorescences to 66.0cm; sepals and petals narrowly spatulate and reflexed, light yellow; lip tri-lobed, cream, veins finely spotted maroon (side lobes densely, proximal midlobe moderately and distal midlobe lightly), midlobe margins ruffled, clear; column light green, ridges maroon, distal half finely spotted maroon, anther cap light yellow, ventrally ringed maroon; substance medium; texture matte. Exhibitor: Gayle Brodie | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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