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Plant Name: Cleisostoma nangongense ‘Windflower’ CBR/AOS 0 pts. Parentage: species
Description: Eighteen fragrant, stellate flowers and sixty-one buds on five pendulous, inflorescences presented on a well-grown, 37.0-cm wide by 61.0-cm long, pendulous, plant mounted on a 2.5-cm wide by 10.3-cm long wood tree fern totem; leaves dark green, slender, semi-terete, acute, fleshy, channeled adaxially 0.2 cm wide and up to 14.0 cm in length, alternately arranged on three branching growths up to 36.0 cm long; Inflorescences up to 16.0-cm long, sequentially flowering; sepals and petals fleshy, green, thickly overlaid burgundy along superior and inferior proximal three-fourths margins, dorsal sepal broadly spatulate, rounded, lateral sepals and petals oblong, rounded; lip cupped, yellow-cream; nectary 0.8 cm, slightly compressed, partially divided on inferior half, yellow-cream, overlaid pink distally; column 45-degree elevation from plane of sepals and petals, yellow-cream, anther cap yellow; substance firm; texture glossy, sepals and petals also strumose; species from Southern Yunnan, China; awardpending confirmationo by SITF; recognized as a well-grown, rarely cultivated plant. Exhibitor: Betty Kelepecz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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