Orchid Awards

08Mar 2008

March 8, 2008 Central California Orchid Society Show Gongora fulva ‘Sandwolf’ species HCC 78 Exhibited by Bill Sanders Description: One hundred one flowers and 63 buds on three mature and two immature inflorescences; sepals yellow orange with dark mahogany spots and bars; petals light green with faint brown bars; lips cream with bright yellow at […]

08Mar 2008

March 8, 2008 Central California Orchid Society Show Sc. Fairyland ‘Marchen’ (C. Candy Tuft x Sc. Beaufort) AM 82 Exhibited by Chuck and Pat Gunn Description: Three round, flat flowers on one inflorescence held above the foliage; sepals and petals white overlaid in rose pink, darker at tips; lip cream with canary yellow at midlobes, […]

05Mar 2008

  March 5, 2008 Lc. Gold Digger ‘Redland’s Gold’ (Lc. Red Gold x C. Warpaint) CCM 82 Exhibited by Karl and Marilyn Walter Description: One hundred fifty-eight flowers and two buds on 46 inflorescences; plant is 100-cm. in diameter and 70-cm. high in a 50-cm. clay pot and is bloomed very uniformly around entire circumference; […]

05Mar 2008

March 5, 2008 Paphiopedilum Memoria Peter Glancy ‘Janet’s Delight’ (Paph. Genevieve Booth x Paph. James Bacon) HCC 77 Exhibited by Dennis Wade Description: One flower and one immature flower on one inflorescence; dorsal sepal chartreuse with chestnut brown vertical stripes; petals chartreuse with ox-blood spots centrally merging to stripes; pouch chartreuse overlaid red-brown; hirsute staminode […]

06Feb 2008

Feb 6 2008, Paphiopedilum fairrieanum ‘Cabernet’, species, AM 82, Exhibited by Dave Sorokowsky Description: One well presented, richly colored flower on one 21-cm. inflorescence; sepals and petals white with deep burgundy striations and undulant margins; pouch olive green with deep burgundy striations substance good; texture matte. Measurements in cm.  Ns  7.8  nsv  7.7  Dsw  5.3 […]

06Feb 2008

February 6, 2008 Epidendrum schlechterianum ‘Joan’ species CCM 83 Exhibited by Howard Gunn *syn Nanode Description: One hundred forty-seven flowers on 73 inflorescence displayed nearly all around the plant overflowing in a 14-cm. treefern pot, flowers jade green appressed to tips of foliage, most inflorescences display two flowers. Measurements in cm.  Ns  1.0  nsv  1.8 […]

06Feb 2008

February 6, 2008 Paphiopedilum emersonii ‘Pinot Blanc’ species HCC 79 Exhibited by Dave Sorokowsky Description: One flower on one inflorescence; sepals and petals white, petals with fine hairs, with burgundy speckling; pouch pale yellow with burgundy spots which show through from the inner surface; staminode yellow with burgundy markings on outer edge; substance good; texture […]

02Jan 2008

January 2, 2008 Dendrobium Banana Royal ‘Diane Davis’ (Den. Liholiho x Den. canaliculatum) CCM 81 Exhibited by Mike Davis Description: Five hundred and seventy-two flowers and 640 buds on 58 inflorescences on a 126x118x85-cm. mounted plant; flower sepals and petals white, distal half overlaid yellow; lip solid yellow; substance good; texture matte. Measurements in cm. […]

02Jan 2008

January 2, 2008 Slc. Sierra Gem ‘Empire Mine’ (Sc. Pole Star x Slc. Hazel Boyd) AM 84 Exhibited by Gold Country Orchids Description: Eleven flowers on two inflorescences; sepals and petals clear sulfur yellow; lip sulfur yellow, faint red veins in throat, slight red blush apically; substance firm; texture diamond dust. Measurements in cm.  Ns […]

05Dec 2007

December 5, 2007 Platystele repens ‘Joan’ species CCE 91 Exhibited by Howard Gunn Description: One 22-cm. ball of immaculate growth with extreme density of flowers, three hundred ninety-six flowers and 55 buds on 255 inflorescences; sepals and petals translucent chartreuse; lip orange; substance firm; texture matte. Measurements in cm.  Ns  0.6  nsv  0.6  Dsw  0.2 […]

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