Provisional Awards

Long Beach, CA, September 24, 2018

Cattleya Day Tripper ‘Fuerte’ AM/AOS 82 pts.
© Arthur Pinkers 2018
 Plant Name: Cattleya Day Tripper ‘Fuerte’ AM/AOS 82 pts.
Parentage: (C. Tripp Johnston x C. Penny Kuroda (Caudebec Gp))

Natural Spread Horizontal: 8.4 cm Vertical: 8.2 cm
Dorsal Sepal
Width: 2.2 cm Length: 5.1 cm
Petal Width: 3.0 cm Length: 4.8 cm
Lateral Sepal (Synsepal): Width: 2.1 cm Length: 3.5 cm
Lip (Pouch): Width: 3.3 cm Length: 4.3 cm

Description: Twenty flowers on two 15.5-cm upright inflorescences; sepals and petals cream, heavily spotted purple, petals less spotted, medially blushed purple; lip cream, side lobes bushed magenta-pink intensifying distally, midlobe overlaid dark magenta-pink, keels white; column white, dorsal surface blushed pink medially; substance firm; texture satiny.
Exhibitor: Outhay Viengkhou
Cattleya bicolor ssp. Braziliensis ‘RB Mega SanBar Bronze’ HCC/AOS 77 pts.
© Arthur Pinkers 2018
 Plant Name: Cattleya bicolor ssp. Braziliensis ‘RB Mega SanBar Bronze’ HCC/AOS 77 pts.
Parentage: Species

Natural Spread Horizontal: 10.4 cm Vertical: 10.8 cm
Dorsal Sepal
Width: 2.0 cm Length: 7.4 cm
Petal Width: 2.4 cm Length: 6.3 cm
Lateral Sepal (Synsepal): Width: 2.0 cm Length: 5.4 cm
Lip (Pouch): Width: 3.8 cm Length: 6.8 cm

Description: Five flowers on one elongated 45.0-cm curved inflorescence; sepals and petals green overlaid with fuchsia, providing an overall bronze appearance, sepal apices green; lip spade shaped, white overlaid fuchsia, white spot just under column tip; column white dorsal surface blushed soft magenta, anther cap white; substance very firm; texture glossy.
Exhibitor: Arthur Pinkers
Cymbidium Doctor Seton ‘Christmas’ HCC/AOS 76 pts.
© Arthur Pinkers 2018
 Plant Name: Cymbidium Doctor Seton ‘Christmas’ HCC/AOS 76 pts.
Parentage: (Cym. Fifi x Cym. ensifolium)

Natural Spread Horizontal: 5.2 cm Vertical: 5.4 cm
Dorsal Sepal
Width: 1.7 cm Length: 3.2 cm
Petal Width: 1.2 cm Length: 3.2 cm
Lateral Sepal (Synsepal): Width: 1.2 cm Length: 3.2 cm
Lip (Pouch): Width: 1.7 cm Length: 1.8 cm

Description: Forty-six flowers and nine buds on three mature upright inflorescences, seventeen buds on one in-mature inflorescence; sepals and petals elliptic, yellow-green; lip yellow-green, blotched maroon, crest bright yellow; column yellow, spotted maroon on ventral surface, anther cap cream; substance firm; texture matte.
Exhibitor: Duy Nguyen