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Plant Name: Brassia rolandoi ‘Huntington's Dancing Queen’ CHM/AOS 82 pts. Parentage: Species
Description: Seventeen flowers on two 47-cm arching, pendulous inflorescences borne from one pseudobulb on a six-pseudobulb plant, three of which are deciduous, grown in a 5.5-cm pot; one possibly two, up to 53.0-cm long by up to 5.9-cm wide, acute, linear, leaves are terminally attached to 9.8-cm. long by 3.2-cm wide by 2.7 cm thick very elongated compressed oval pseudobulbs encased by sheaths that terminate in blades up to 57.0 cm long and about 4.0 cm wide; two racemes originate basally on the growth maturing growth; sepals yellow-green, cream basally, blotched dark brown, elongated distally, lateral sepals crossed; petals yellow-green, cream basally, blotched dark brown on proximal half; lip cream brown blotch crescent around crest, yellow-green apically , crest thick divided in half longitudinally with a ”V” shape, white division yellow becoming gold-yellow deeper in division; substance firm; texture matte; species native to Columbia; identification needs to be verified by SITF; flower bract light green covering petiole and ovary. Exhibitor: Huntington Botanical Gardens | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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