Provisional Awards

Newport Harbor Orchid Expo, Westminster, CA, February 10, 2017

American Orchid Society Show Trophy Vietnamese Orchid Society ST/AOS 85 pts. left
© Arthur Pinkers 2017
Plant Name: American Orchid Society Show Trophy Vietnamese Orchid Society ST/AOS 85 pts.


Natural Spread Horizontal: 0.0 cm Vertical: 0.0 cm
Dorsal Sepal
Width: 0.0 cm Length: 0.0 cm
Petal Width: 0.0 cm Length: 0.0 cm
Lateral Sepal (Synsepal) Width: 0.0 cm Length: 0.0 cm
Lip (Pouch) Width: 0.0 cm Length: 0.0 cm

Description: Seventy-five square foot naturalized triangular table top display with plants of good quality representing thirteen genera pleasingly arranged using driftwood to draw the eye through the balanced exhibit and highlighted with an excellent specimen sized plant of Dendrobium speciosum; also received a silver certificate, award 20174761.
Exhibitor: Vietnamese Orchid Society
American Orchid Society Show Trophy Vietnamese Orchid Society ST/AOS 85 pts. Right
© Arthur Pinkers 2017
American Orchid Society Show Trophy Vietnamese Orchid Society ST/AOS 85 pts. Center
© Arthur Pinkers 2017
American Orchid Society Show Trophy Vietnamese Orchid Society SC/AOS 85 pts. left
© Arthur Pinkers 2017
Plant Name: American Orchid Society Silver Certificate Vietnamese Orchid Society SC/AOS 85 pts.


Natural Spread Horizontal: 0.0 cm Vertical: 0.0 cm
Dorsal Sepal
Width: 0.0 cm Length: 0.0 cm
Petal Width: 0.0 cm Length: 0.0 cm
Lateral Sepal (Synsepal) Width: 0.0 cm Length: 0.0 cm
Lip (Pouch) Width: 0.0 cm Length: 0.0 cm

Description: Seventy-five square foot naturalized triangular table top display with plants of good quality representing thirteen genera pleasingly arranged using driftwood to draw the eye through the balanced exhibit and highlighted with an excellent specimen sized plant of Dendrobium speciosum; also received the AOS Show Trophy, award 20174760.
Exhibitor: Vietnamese Orchid Society
American Orchid Society Show Trophy Vietnamese Orchid Society SC/AOS 85 pts. Right
© Arthur Pinkers 2017
American Orchid Society Show Trophy Vietnamese Orchid Society SC/AOS 85 pts. Center
© Arthur Pinkers 2017
Lycaste N.R. ‘Lemon Drop’ AM/AOS 80 pts.
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Plant Name: Lycaste N.R. ‘Lemon Drop’ AM/AOS 80 pts.
Parentage: (Lyc. Leo x Lyc. Princess Takamado)

Natural Spread Horizontal: 13.4 cm Vertical: 11.2 cm
Dorsal Sepal
Width: 6.5 cm Length: 7.5 cm
Petal Width: 5.2 cm Length: 5.2 cm
Lateral Sepal (Synsepal) Width: 6.5 cm Length: 7.5 cm
Lip (Pouch) Width: 3.2 cm Length: 4.0 cm

Description: One rounded flower on one erect, 26.0-cm inflorescence; sepals cream, slight tint of green; petals white spotted red basally; lip light yellow; substance hard; texture matte.
Exhibitor: Cal-Orchid, Inc.
Lycaste Arcadian Sunrise ‘Valentine’ AM/AOS 82 pts.
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Plant Name: Lycaste Arcadian Sunrise ‘Valentine’ AM/AOS 82 pts.
Parentage: (Lyc. Chita Dream x Lyc. Shoalhaven)

Natural Spread Horizontal: 13.0 cm Vertical: 11.5 cm
Dorsal Sepal
Width: 6.0 cm Length: 8.0 cm
Petal Width: 5.5 cm Length: 4.8 cm
Lateral Sepal (Synsepal) Width: 6.0 cm Length: 8.5 cm
Lip (Pouch) Width: 2.5 cm Length: 5.0 cm

Description: Two flowers on two inflorescences; sepals white brushed light rose, central margins overlaid rose; petals white margins dark rose; lip white, yellow centrally, side lobe apex light margin, midlobe side margins dark rose; column white; substance heavy; texture crystalline.
Exhibitor: Cal-Orchid, Inc.
Cleisocentron gokusingii ‘Kyle’ AM/AOS 83 pts.
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Plant Name: Cleisocentron gokusingii ‘Kyle’ AM/AOS 83 pts.
Species

Natural Spread Horizontal: 0.8 cm Vertical: 1.1 cm
Dorsal Sepal
Width: 0.3 cm Length: 0.6 cm
Petal Width: 0.2 cm Length: 0.6 cm
Lateral Sepal (Synsepal) Width: 0.2 cm Length: 0.6 cm
Lip (Pouch) Width: 0.2 cm Length: 0.6 cm

Description: Four hundred eighteen flowers and one hundred fourteen buds gracefully presented in clusters on nineteen 3.5-cm branched superaxillary racemose inflorescences borne on ten of thirteen erect, elongated 0.7-cm by up to 40.0-cm monopodal, canes bearing up to twenty-eight enveloping leaf bearing sheaths, leaves dark green, 0.9-cm wide by 10.8-cm long by 0.7-cm deep distichous, ligulate, shallowly V shaped blades distinctly constricted about 2.5-cm below apex, obtusely, unequally bilobed apically grown on a 26.0-cm long by 11.5-cm wide cedar shingle; sepals and petals translucent blue-grey; lip translucent blue-grey, dark violet proximally, dark blue-grey apically, 0.9-cm spur translucent blue-grey; column translucent blue-grey, anther cap white; substance firm; texture crystalline; country of origin is Borneo; also received a CCE/AOS, 20174765. Pending SITF or Taxonimst validation.
Exhibitor: Andy's Orchids
Cleisocentron gokusingii ‘Kyle’ CCE/AOS 90 pts.
© Arthur Pinkers 2017
Plant Name: Cleisocentron gokusingii ‘Kyle’ CCE/AOS 90 pts.
Species

Natural Spread Horizontal: 0.8 cm Vertical: 1.1 cm
Dorsal Sepal
Width: 0.3 cm Length: 0.6 cm
Petal Width: 0.2 cm Length: 0.6 cm
Lateral Sepal (Synsepal) Width: 0.2 cm Length: 0.6 cm
Lip (Pouch) Width: 0.2 cm Length: 0.6 cm

Description: Four hundred eighteen flowers and one hundred fourteen buds gracefully presented in clusters on nineteen 3.5-cm branched superaxillary racemose inflorescences borne on ten of thirteen erect, elongated 0.7-cm by up to 40.0-cm monopodal, canes bearing up to twenty-eight enveloping leaf bearing sheaths, leaves dark green, 0.9-cm wide by 10.8-cm long by 0.7-cm deep distichous, ligulate, shallowly V shaped blades distinctly constricted about 2.5-cm below apex, obtusely, unequally bilobed apically grown on a 26.0-cm long by 11.5-cm wide cedar shingle; sepals and petals translucent blue-grey; lip translucent blue-grey, dark violet proximally, dark blue-grey apically, 0.9-cm spur translucent blue-grey; column translucent blue-grey, anther cap white; substance firm; texture crystalline; country of origin is Borneo; also received an AM/AOS, 20174764. Pending SITF or Taxonimst validation.
Exhibitor: Andy's Orchids
Dendrobium Warrior Vista ‘Warrior Vista’ HCC/AOS 79 pts.
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Plant Name: Dendrobium Warrior Vista ‘Warrior Vista’ HCC/AOS 79 pts.
Parentage: (Den. Warrior x Den. speciosum)

Natural Spread Horizontal: 7.3 cm Vertical: 8.0 cm
Dorsal Sepal
Width: 0.8 cm Length: 4.2 cm
Petal Width: 0.4 cm Length: 4.4 cm
Lateral Sepal (Synsepal) Width: 1.1 cm Length: 4.3 cm
Lip (Pouch) Width: 1.0 cm Length: 2.1 cm

Description: Fifteen flat flowers on one erect inflorescence; sepals and petals deep yellow, randomly blotched dark burgundy marginally; lip light purple blotched dark purple, midline yellow; substance medium; texture matte.
Exhibitor: Peter T. Lin