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Plant Name: Dendrobium ceraula ‘Huntington's Topaz’ CHM/AOS 81 pts. Species
Description: Nine flowers on three flat-umbel inflorescences; plant sympodial, mounted on a 3.5 cm diameter x 29.0 cm long Manzanita log; rhizome short, wiry; roots fine and profuse; pseudobulbs cane like, many sectioned, swollen at nodes, lax, becoming pendant with age, new growths emerge from rhizome and branching from internodes of older canes, infrequently will form kiekies, distichous, oblong-lanceolate leaves glossy medium green; flower base color white; sepals blushed light blue, tipped white; petals blushed light blue, faintly striped light blue on proximal third; lip white, striped purple blue on proximal third, blushed light blue on distal third; mentum curved 1.5 cm; column white, ventral margin around stigmatic cavity blue-purple; substance medium; texture sparkling. Dendrobium ceraula, award 20142032, has been confirmed to be Dendrobium ceraulaby SITF (Nov 2014). Exhibitor: Huntington Botanical Gardens | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Plant Name: Dendrobium ceraula ‘Huntington's Amethyst' HCC/AOS 79 pts. Species
Description: Six flowers on three inflorescences; sepal and petals light lavender-blue, slightly darker along mid-vein, tipped white; lip white, suffused lavender -blue distal half, apex white, fine burgundy stripes radiating from base, 2.1 cm mentum white, charmingly curled; substance medium; texture crystalline. Dendrobium ceraula, award 20142033, has been confirmed to be Dendrobium ceraulaby SITF (Nov 2014). Exhibitor: Huntington Botanical Gardens | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Plant Name: Paphiopedilum tigrinum ‘Huntington - SD Zoo’ FCC/AOS 90 pts. Species
Description: One flower of exceptional form, color and balance on one erect 20.0 cm inflorescence; graceful dorsal sepal deep apple green with nearly black stripe along proximal midvein, two brown heart shaped blotches near base; synsepal light green, sparse brown stripes proximally; petals apple green, brown stripes on proximal two-thirds, suffused deep purple on apical third becoming black near apple green minutely hirsute margin; Pouch light green, overlaid dark rose-pink, pouch rim lined with minute brown hairs; staminode pale yellow, center red-brown, red-brown on hairs superior edge center; substance firm; texture satin, synsepal crystalline. Exhibitor: Huntington Botanical Gardens | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Plant Name: Dracula cordobae ‘Huntington's Monkey’ AM/AOS 84 pts. Species
Description: Six flowers and sixteen buds on thirty-six mature and developing inflorescences; dorsal sepal cream, finely spotted oxblood basally and along fused sepal seam, elongated diamond shaped oxblood blotch on midvein above column, distal five-sixths of margin oxblood, 5.1 cm, oxblood caudae; lateral sepals cream, finely spotted oxblood basally and along fused sepal seam, distal five-sixths of margin oxblood, 5.1 cm, oxblood caudae; petals cream, blotched oxblood; lip white, column cream, anther cap very light yellow; substance firm; texture matte. Exhibitor: Huntington Botanical Gardens | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Plant Name: Rhyncholaeliocattleya Chunyeah ‘Huntington's Sunset’ AM/AOS 81 pts. (Rlc. Tassie Barbero x Rlc. Kuan-Miao Chen)
Description: Two flowers on one inflorescence; sepals and petals rich golden yellow; lip gold-yellow, proximal margin and distal half overlaid red, throat overlaid red basally revealing yellow veins; column yellow; substance firm; texture velvet. Exhibitor: Huntington Botanical Gardens | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Plant Name: Scaphosepalum swertiifolium ‘Huntington's Violet Starling’ CHM/AOS 83 pts. Species
Description: Twenty-three flower and five buds plus many immature buds on seventy-one, up to 47.0 cm long, sequentially blooming inflorescences grown on a 64.0 cm diameter x 16.0 cm tall plant made of growths having erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, long-petiolate, elliptical, acute, subplicate leaf with inflorescences arising from the base of the channeled petiole in a 15.0 cm square teak basket; dorsal sepal rich magenta, 0.7 cm caudae pale magenta; lateral sepals translucent magenta, 3.6 cm translucent caudae; petals yellow, dark red spot centrally; lip cream with magenta spots substance firm; texture velvet. Scaphosepalum swertiifolium, award 20142038, has been confirmed to be Scaphosepalum swertiifolium subsp. swertiifolium by SITF (Nov 2014). Exhibitor: Huntington Botanical Gardens | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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