Provisional Awards

San Diego, CA, September 4, 2018

Phalaenopsis Yaphon Red Pearl ‘Arnie's Red’ HCC/AOS 78 pts.
© Arnold Gum 2018
 Plant Name: Phalaenopsis Yaphon Red Pearl ‘Arnie's Red’ HCC/AOS 78 pts.
Parentage: (Phal. Samera x Phal. Shingher Pure Love)

Natural Spread Horizontal: 5.2 cm Vertical: 5.5 cm
Dorsal Sepal
Width: 2.0 cm Length: 2.7 cm
Petal Width: 2.0 cm Length: 2.5 cm
Lateral Sepal (Synsepal): Width: 1.7 cm Length: 2.7 cm
Lip (Pouch): Width: 1.1 cm Length: 1.8 cm

Description: Two flowers and one bud on one 8.0-cm. inflorescence; sepals and petals magenta; lip white, side lobes gold, thin white bar distally, magenta apically, crest yellow; column white heavily overlaid magenta, anther cap white overlaid magenta; substance firm; texture matte.
Exhibitor: Arnold Gum
Catasetum N.R. ‘Tyrone’ HCC/AOS 79 pts.
© Arnold Gum 2018
 Plant Name: Catasetum N.R. ‘Tyrone’ HCC/AOS 79 pts.
Parentage: (Ctsm. Karen Armstrong x Ctsm. Alexa)

Natural Spread Horizontal: 3.5 cm Vertical: 6.1 cm
Dorsal Sepal
Width: 1.2 cm Length: 4.1 cm
Petal Width: 1.6 cm Length: 4.0 cm
Lateral Sepal (Synsepal): Width: 1.2 cm Length: 3.8 cm
Lip (Pouch): Width: 3.5 cm Length: 3.2 cm

Description: Seventeen flowers on two arching, pendulous inflorescences; flowers cream, sepals and petals finely spotted maroon, lip finely spotted maroon, lightly blushed maroon proximally, saccate centrally, gold-yellow proximally, prominent keeled crest distally, margin fimbriate; column very finely spotted on dorsal surface, pollen triggers gracefully crossed; substance firm; texture finely crystalline, lip satiny.
Exhibitor: Charles R. Fouquette