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Plant Name: Cattleya ghillanyi ‘Diamond Orchids’ HCC/AOS 77 pts. Species
Description: Thirteen flowers on three erect 12.5 cm inflorescences borne terminally on a compact plant in a 8.0-cm terracotta clay pot consisting of pseudobulbs up to 4.5 cm in length and 1.7 cm in diameter, encased in a thin, dry, papery sheath bearing a single, fleshy boat like leaf 8.0 cm long and 2.3 cm wide; sepals and petals very flat, white overlaid bright fuchsia, slightly darker overlay distally, veining darker fuchsia, same on reverse; lip tri-lobed, side lobes encasing column, white overlaid fuchsia, becoming darker along margins, crest orange; column cream overlaid light green proximally, anther cap white; substance firm, texture crystalline; Cattleya ghillanyi, award 20152025, has been confirmed to be Cattleya ghillanyi by SITF (Sept 2015). Exhibitor: Peter T. Lin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Plant Name: Paphiopedilum Alex's Spots ‘Huntington's Leopard’ HCC/AOS 78 pts. (Paph. lowii x Paph. kolopakingii)
Description: Six flowers and two buds on one upright arching 82.0-cm inflorescence; sepals chartreuse, lighter and blushed purple marginally, veined mahogany, petals chartreuse becoming purple distally, spotted mahogany basally, spotted purple on proximal half; pouch chartreuse overlaid mahogany on forward two-thirds, veined darker mahogany; staminode chartreuse, dark red-brown centrally, margin red-brown hirsute; substance firm, texture glossy. Exhibitor: Huntington Botanical Gardens | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Plant Name: Geodorum terrestre ‘Huntington's Sunray’ CHM/AOS 80 pts. Species
Description: Ten flowers and six buds, symmetrically arranged, decurved, on one 22.0 cm inflorescence that becomes decurved in last quarter, borne alongside the new growth originating basally on a plant of three new growths and three deciduous tuber like noded pseudobulbs 3.5 cm high by 3.5 cm in diameter in a 10-0-cm plastic pot; new growths carry three up to 35.0 cm long and 6.2 cm wide, elliptic, acute, petiolate leaves; sepals and petals white, lightly tipped pale green; lip saccate, white becoming light yellow on apical fourth, bright yellow spot overlaid on distal third, finely spotted red vaguely along proximal venation, outlines bright yellow spot, larger spotting on apex; column white, short longitudinal magenta bars immediately behind stigmatic surfaces, anther cap white, with magenta spot on apex; substance firm; texture matte; Geodorum citrinum, award 20152027, has been confirmed to be Geodorum terrestre BY SITF ( August 2015). Exhibitor: Huntington Botanical Gardens | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Plant Name: Houlletia tigrina ‘Huntington's Tiger’ AM/AOS 80 pts. Species
Description: Six flowers and five buds on five pendant inflorescences; sepals light ivory-yellow mottled light red-brown; petals green-gold mottled red-brown through out, coalescing basally; lip white, hypochile heavily barred red-brown; mesochile barred maroon, bright yellow spot at apex, epichile finely spotted maroon centrally, distal margin sulfur yellow; column light yellow, dorsal surface barred red-brown, anther cap white; substance very firm; texture matte. Exhibitor: Huntington Botanical Gardens | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Plant Name: Oeceoclades spathulifera ‘Huntington's Green Goblin’ AM/AOS 82 pts. Species
Description: Forty-one flowers on two erect 104.5-cm Inflorescences, multi segmented, borne basally from newer approximately 4.0-cm by 5.5-cm terrestrial pseudobulbs bearing two to three elliptic - linear, green, mottled brown leaves up to 20.5 cm long by 2.5 cm wide that drape over pot edge; sepals light green, faintly tessellated distally; petals light green narrowly veined and marked purple; lip tri-lobed, white, yellow dot centrally, side lobes becoming light green distally veined purple, midlobe bifid, becoming light green on inferior halves veined purple, two raised keels basally; column green with a magenta stripe behind anther cap and along ventral surface edge, anther cap green with purple spot centrally; substance firm; texture matte; ovary green, cell seem green-brown; Oeceoclades spathulifera, award 20152029, has been confirmed to be Oeceoclades spathulifera by SITF (August 2015). Exhibitor: Huntington Botanical Gardens | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Plant Name: Cattleya acuensis ‘Diamond Orchids’ AM/AOS 81 pts. Species
Description: Nine flat flowers evenly presented on nine inflorescences; grown on a cork oak mount sepals and petals red-orange; lip bright yellow overlaid red-orange distally, veins red-orange; substance medium; texture crystalline. Exhibitor: Peter T. Lin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
![Dendrobium treacherianum [Egm. Lyonii] ‘Huntington's Ruby Cascade’ HCC/AOS 78 pts.](Egm. Lyonii Huntington's Ruby Cascade HCC 78 pts. 20152031 IMG_3789_DxO 4 l.jpg) © Arthur Pinkers 2015 |
Plant Name: Dendrobium treacherianum ‘Huntington's Ruby Cascade’ HCC/AOS 78 pts. Species
Description: Fifty-six stellate flowers on three 61.0-cm arching pedant inflorescences; sepals and petals white, blushed red-pink, deep purple proximally; tri-lobed lip, side lobes forming tube around column, red-rose, darker proximally; midlobe diamond shaped, proximal third red-pink becoming white distally; column red-rose; substance firm; texture satin; Kew accepts the name Dendrobium treacherianum and lists Epigeneium lyonii as a synonym. Exhibitor: Huntington Botanical Gardens | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Plant Name: Stanhopea nigroviolacea ‘Huntington's Velociraptor’ FCC/AOS 92 pts. Species
Description: Two exceptionally flat flowers and four buds on three pendulous inflorescences; dorsal sepal oblong, cream, blushed yellow centrally, overlaid purple proximally; lateral sepals cream overlaid dark purple on proximal two-thirds, blushed yellow distally; petals cream overlaid extremely dark purple basally, dark purple bars centrally becoming blotches and spots distally; hypochile cream interior gold yellow overlaid extremely dark purple proximally, reverse overlaid extremely dark purple proximally, mesochile and epichile cream, spotted medium purple; column cream spotted purple; substance firm; texture waxy; commended for extreme flatness, overall size and arrangement. Exhibitor: Huntington Botanical Gardens | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Plant Name: Dimorphorchis rossii ‘Sunset Mesa’ AM/AOS 82 pts. Species
Description: Fourteen distal flowers and thirty-four proximal flowers, typically differing in color and form, on four pendulous inflorescences between 45.0-cm and 82.0-cm in length borne on a plant of one growth fully leaved to the base, 60.0-cm tall and 45.0-cm in width with two basal growths in a 23.0-cm glazed clay pot in a mixture of bark, charcoal, perlite and diatomite; distal flower sepal and petals rich yellow-orange; proximal flower sepals and petals light yellow-chartreuse, lightly and irregularly stippled red; lip boat shaped, cream, stippled and striped red, callus yellow; column light chartreuse, anther cap white; substance very firm; texture matte; strongly fragrant; also received a Certificate of Cultural Merit of 88 pts. Exhibitor: Gerlinda Stelzner | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Plant Name: Dimorphorchis rossii ‘Sunset Mesa’ CCM/AOS 88 pts. Species
Description: Fourteen distal flowers and thirty-four proximal flowers, typically differing in color and form, on four pendulous inflorescences between 45.0-cm and 82.0-cm in length borne on a plant of one growth fully leaved to the base, 60.0-cm tall and 45.0-cm in width with two basal growths in a 23.0-cm glazed clay pot in a mixture of bark, charcoal, perlite and diatomite; distal flower sepal and petals rich yellow-orange; proximal flower sepals and petals light yellow-chartreuse, lightly and irregularly stippled red; lip boat shaped, cream, stippled and striped red, callus yellow; column light chartreuse, anther cap white; substance very firm; texture matte; strongly fragrant; also received an Award of Merit of 82 pts. Exhibitor: Gerlinda Stelzner |