Provisional Awards

Santa Barbara, CA, February 20, 2013

Den Coote Nancy AM 81 pts.
© Larry Vierheilig 2013
Plant Name: Dendrobium Coote 'Nancy' AM/AOS 81 pts.
(Elegant Heart x Zip)

Natural Spread Horizontal: 4.3 cm Vertical: 6.9 cm
Dorsal Sepal
Width: 0.9 cm Length: 4.0 cm
Petal Width: 0.8 cm Length: 2.9 cm
Lateral Sepal (Synsepal): Width: 1.2 cm Length: 3.0 cm
Lip (Pouch): Width: 1.1 cm Length: 1.7 cm

Description: Twenty-three flowers and seventeen buds on four inflorescences; base color white; sepals spotted and blotched pink; petals spotted pink, coalescing distally; lip spotted pink centrally, margin overlaid pink; column overlaid pink apically, anther cap white; substance firm; texture matte.
Exhibitor: Greg Truex
Den Warragul Jet Stream AM 80 pts.
© Larry Vierheilig 2013
Plant Name: Dendrobium Warragul 'Jet Stream' AM/AOS 80 pts.
(Elegant Heart x Zip)

Natural Spread Horizontal: 3.7 cm Vertical: 3.9 cm
Dorsal Sepal
Width: 0.7 cm Length: 2.0 cm
Petal Width: 0.3 cm Length: 2.0 cm
Lateral Sepal (Synsepal): Width: 0.9 cm Length: 2.0 cm
Lip (Pouch): Width: 0.7 cm Length: 0.9 cm

Description: Seventy-four flowers and sixty-nine buds on twenty-nine 10.0 to 15.0 cm upright inflorescences; base color white; sepal and petal margins overlaid magenta-purple; tri-lobed lip heavily overlaid magenta, keel white; column white dorsal surface magenta; substance medium; texture matte.
Exhibitor: Greg Truex
Cym. qiubeiense Rosminah CBR.
© Larry Vierheilig 2012
Plant Name: Cymbidium qiubeiense 'Rosminah' CBR/AOS
Species

Natural Spread Horizontal: 6.1 cm Vertical: 3.2 cm
Dorsal Sepal
Width: 0.5 cm Length: 3.1 cm
Petal Width: 0.6 cm Length: 2.3 cm
Lateral Sepal (Synsepal): Width: 0.5 cm Length: 3.0 cm
Lip (Pouch): Width: 1.2 cm Length: 1.4 cm

Description: Nine star shaped flowers on two upright 30.0 cm inflorescences borne on ovoid pseudobulbs with hard, dark green linear, acuminate leaves up to 45.0 cm, tinged purple on extended petiole grown in a 10.0 cm wide by 18.0 cm tall oriental pot; sepals medium green; petals swept forward, medium green, slightly lighter green picotee, basal half of mid-vein oxblood; lip light green proximally, white distally, minimally spotted oxblood, proximal margins overlaid oxblood; column light green, dorsal surface overlaid oxblood; substance firm; texture matte; recognized for its charm as a strongly colored species, erect oxblood spikes and pleasing proportion of inflorescence to plant.
Exhibitor: Don Brown
Cym. qiubeiense Rosminah CBR. plant
© Larry Vierheilig 2012