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Plant Name: Paphiopedilum Harold Koopowitz ‘Huntington's Emerald’ HCC/AOS 75 pts. (Paph. malipoense x Paph. rothschildianum)
Description: Two flat flowers on one 49.0-cm inflorescence; sepals and petals light yellow-green, veined maroon, petals slightly undulated, distal margins slightly rolled forward, inferior half brushed maroon proximally, sepal and petal margins hirsute; pouch light yellow-tan, finely spotted maroon along main veins, lightly veined maroon on interior; staminode light yellow, two maroon eyes centrally; substance firm; texture matte, petals and staminode also pubescent. Exhibitor: Huntington Botanical Gardens | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Plant Name: Vanda Gene Gadilhe ‘Diamond Orchids’ AM/AOS 82 pts. (V. Yip Sum Wah x V. falcata)
Description: Twenty-three flowers and six buds on a well presented erect inflorescence; sepals light orange blushed faint rose-pink distally; veined slightly darker rose-pink; petals veined faint rose-pink; lip white, basally overlaid dark pink, midlobe overlaid rose-pink, veined darker pink, 2.3-cm spur rose-pink becoming darker apically; ovary pink transitioning to green proximally on rachis; substance firm; texture matte with crystalline flecks. Exhibitor: Peter T. Lin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Plant Name: Oeceoclades humbertii ‘Huntington's Beanstalk’ CHM/AOS 80 pts. Species
Description: Twenty-three flowers and four buds widely spaced on one erect 62.8-cm, four segmented inflorescence borne basally on newly developing growth of a three growth plant; mature growths consist of 2.5-cm diameter by 1.5-cm high irregular cylindrical, almost block like, pseudobulbs progressively growing down in the 7.5-cm square plastic pot containing a mixture of pumice and expanded clay balls bearing six, up to 2.3-cm wide by up to 14.2-cm long, broadly ensiform, green slightly mottled cream, leaves basally wrapping the new growth, progressively dropping as the growth matures leaving fibrous sheathing except two terminal leaves on the mature growth that drop the next year; sepals green, lighter green medially, dorsal sepal elliptic, lateral sepals falcate; petals oblong, green irregularly blotched dark magenta along veins; lip strongly trilobed, side lobes oval, midlobe bifid apexes rounded, white, veined magenta, margin pale yellow-green, crest two white triangular projections centrally, 0.2-cm wide by 0.4-cm long, dark green spur; column light green anther cap yellow; substance firm; texture matte, species comes from Madagascar; pending SITF verification; commended for well presented, beautiful flowers. Exhibitor: Huntington Botanical Gardens | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Plant Name: Vanda falcata ‘Night Star’ HCC/AOS 79 pts. Species
Description: Thirty-two open flowers on five well presented erect inflorescences; bean leaf form of species; flower white, 2.6-cm; substance firm; texture waxy; notably pleasing fragrance. Exhibitor: Michelle Dobard | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Plant Name: Eulophia petersii ‘Kathy Nguyen’ HCC/AOS 78 pts. Species
Description: Two hundred eighty-five flowers and eleven buds on five branched, 175.0-cm, erect inflorescences; very well grown semi-terrestrial plant grown in a 38.0-cm bowl, one growth bearing two inflorescences; sepals spathate tips reflexed and slightly curled, lateral sepals swept up along dorsal sepal, pale green lightly brushed magenta, broadly veined burgundy; petals spathate tips reflexed and slightly curled, light green, white medially, veined magenta; lip white, side lobe superior half's green, veined magenta, midlobe veined magenta centrally margins undulate; column light green three magenta stripes, anther cap, white two dark magenta eyes connected with a magenta stripe; substance firm, texture satin, exhibitor also granted a CCM, award number 20162247. Exhibitor: Tan Hnong Nguyen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Plant Name: Oeceoclades peyrotii ‘Huntington's Splendor’ CBR/AOS Species
Description: Forty-one flowers and twenty-one buds evenly spaced on one erect, horizontally branched, 41.0-cm inflorescence borne basally from the newest growth on a nine growth plant, four carrying a single leaf; mature growths consist of 2.0-cm diameter by 2.5-cm high irregularly egg shaped pseudobulbs, progressively growing down in the 7.5-cm square plastic pot containing a mixture of pumice and expanded clay balls bearing one, 3.8-cm wide by 10.5-cm long, ovate, attenuate, rounded, green-grey mottled dark grey, reverse maroon, mottled grey-maroon; sepals yellow-green feint maroon veins centrally; petals yellow-green, medially blotched maroon; sepals green, lighter green medial dorsal sepal elliptic, proximally narrower, lateral sepals oblong-falcate; petals oblong-falcate, green irregularly blotched dark magenta along veins; lip trilobed, side lobe distally rounded veined magenta-purple, midlobe deeply bifid apexes rounded, white overlaid light yellow distally, veined magenta, crest white, two 0.2-cm wide by 0.3-cm long curved delta wing projections proximally picoteed magenta purple, 0.075-cm wide by 0.2-cm long, dark green narrowly conical spur; column white, two magenta-purple strips medially and on margin, dorsal surface veined magenta purple, anther cap pale green; substance firm; texture matte, species comes from Madagascar; pending SITF verification; commended for well presented, beautiful flowers. Exhibitor: Huntington Botanical Gardens | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Plant Name: Eulophia petersii ‘Kathy Nguyen’ CCM/AOS 80 pts. Species
Description: Two hundred eighty-five flowers and eleven buds on five branched, 175.0-cm, erect inflorescences; very well grown semi-terrestrial plant grown in a 38.0-cm bowl, one growth bearing two inflorescences; sepals spathate tips reflexed and slightly curled, lateral sepals swept up along dorsal sepal, pale green lightly brushed magenta, broadly veined burgundy; petals spathate tips reflexed and slightly curled, light green, white medially, veined magenta; lip white, side lobe superior half's green, veined magenta, midlobe veined magenta centrally margins undulate; column light green three magenta stripes, anther cap, white two dark magenta eyes connected with a magenta stripe; substance firm, texture satin, plant also granted an HCC, award number 20162176. Exhibitor: Tan Hnong Nguyen |