Provisional Awards

San Diego, CA, October 2, 2018

Miltonia Anne Warne ‘Ruth Kelly’ CCM/AOS 87 pts.
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 Plant Name: Miltonia Anne Warne ‘Ruth Kelly’ CCM/AOS 87 pts.
Parentage: (Milt. Bluntii x Milt. spectabilis)

Natural Spread Horizontal: 7.7 cm Vertical: 9.4 cm
Dorsal Sepal
Width: 1.4 cm Length: 4.0 cm
Petal Width: 1.4 cm Length: 4.0 cm
Lateral Sepal (Synsepal): Width: 1.2 cm Length: 4.4 cm
Lip (Pouch): Width: 4.0 cm Length: 4.8 cm

Description: One hundred eleven flat flowers and fifty-four buds well-distributed on 93 35.0-cm inflorescences held well above the foliage on a well-grown, robust 102.0-cm wide by 52.0-cm tall plant grown in a 25.0-cm octagonal teak basket; sepals and petals deep dark purple, lavender-pink halo basally around column; lip bright lavender-pink, veined light purple, proximally overlaid dark lavender-pink around crest; column white, bright yellow basally, blushed purple distally, anther cap white; substance medium; texture satin.
Exhibitor: George Pflaum
Cattleya labiata fma. rubra ‘Caley Madison Burzell’ AM/AOS 82 pts.
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 Plant Name: Cattleya labiata fma. rubra ‘Caley Madison Burzell’ AM/AOS 82 pts.
Parentage: Species

Natural Spread Horizontal: 14.3 cm Vertical: 16.0 cm
Dorsal Sepal
Width: 2.3 cm Length: 9.0 cm
Petal Width: 6.5 cm Length: 8.2 cm
Lateral Sepal (Synsepal): Width: 2.5 cm Length: 8.2 cm
Lip (Pouch): Width: 5.7 cm Length: 8.7 cm

Description: Two flowers on one erect inflorescence; sepals and petals lavender-pink, medially light lavender-pink; lip white, side lobes blushed lavender-pink, midlobe heavily overlaid dark magenta, throat gold-yellow, veined dark magenta, margin lavender-pink picotee; substance medium; texture crystalline.
Exhibitor: Linden Burzell
Fredclarkeara Beverly Danielson ‘Corn!’ AM/AOS 82 pts.
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 Plant Name: Fredclarkeara Beverly Danielson ‘Corn!’ AM/AOS 82 pts.
Parentage: (Fdk. After Midnight x Ctsm. Orchidglade)

Natural Spread Horizontal: 6.4 cm Vertical: 4.5 cm
Dorsal Sepal
Width: 1.6 cm Length: 3.2 cm
Petal Width: 2.2 cm Length: 3.2 cm
Lateral Sepal (Synsepal): Width: 2.0 cm Length: 3.6 cm
Lip (Pouch): Width: 3.0 cm Length: 2.8 cm

Description: Twenty-three flowers on two arching pendulous, 22.0-cm inflorescences; sepals and petals green-cream, sepals densely spotted very dark maroon along veins, coalescing proximally; petals finely spotted very dark maroon coalescing medially, overlaid with large very dark maroon spots; lip saccate , green-cream, lightly spotted maroon on side lobes, midlobe heavily overlaid very dark maroon, crest semi-circular, toothed, margins erose; column green-cream, lightly spotted dark maroon, anther cap green; texture firm; substance waxy.
Exhibitor: Dan Forbes