2023 Awards

02Jul 2023

  June 18, 2023 20232337 Epidendrum tampense var. album ‘El Dorado’ species  HCC 75 Exhibited by Gold Country Orchids Description: Thirty-six flowers and forty-two buds on nine inflorescences up to 54 cm in length; sepals chartreuse; petals chartreuse; lip isthmus-shaped, bright white, white side lobes; column white, chartreuse at base, anther cap light chartreuse; substance […]

01Jul 2023

  June 06, 2023 20232332 Prosthechea karwinskii ‘Goodstuff’ species  AM 80 Exhibited by Tom Pickford Description: Two bright yellow flowers on one pendant 4-cm inflorescence; lip midlobe margin ruffled, orange centrally, veined and suffused light orange, cream on distal edge; substance firm; texture waxy. Measurements in cm.  Ns  10.7  nsv  7.3  Dsw  2.2  dsl  6.3 […]

01Jul 2023

  June 06, 2023 20232272 Lepanthes caritensis ‘Chandra P’ species  CCM 84 Exhibited by Douglas Kubo Description: Eleven flowers and six buds on eight inflorescences averaging 2.0 cm, on a well-grown 6-cm by 6-cm plant on a 3.5-cm by 6-cm cork slab; sepals cream, overlaid light brick red; petals cream, overlaid red apically; lip red; […]

25May 2023

May 21, 2023 20232297 Paph. Macabre Midnight ‘Dornfelder’ Paph. (Hawaiian Treasure x Macabre Illusion) HCC 75 Exhibited by David Sorokowsky Description: One slightly cupped flower on one 27-cm inflorescence; sepal base color cream, dark green and black-purple veins radiate centrally; petals green, heavily overlaid black-purple, darker veins, edges hirsute; pouch black-purple; staminode mauve, darker centrally; […]

25May 2023

  May 21, 2023 20232296 Trichoceros onaensis ‘Grass Valley’ species  HCC 79 Exhibited by Theodore McClellan Description: Two non-resupinate flowers and five buds on one upright, 6-cm inflorescence; sepals light tan, burgundy venation and stipples, green tips; petals light tan, burgundy venation and stipples; lip trilobed, midlobe tan, striped burgundy, basally light burgundy, spotted deeper […]

25May 2023

May 03, 2023 20232290 Mps. Quintal Stars ‘Masquerade’ Mps. (Maui Stars x Edie Brown) HCC 77 Exhibited by Chen-Hao Hsu Description: Four flowers on one 24-cm inflorescence plus one immature inflorescence; sepals and petals white, overlaid magenta, recurved apically; lip cleft, white, overlaid magenta, golden basally, magenta waterfall pattern, edged in white; grooved callus golden, […]

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