Orchid Awards

09Apr 2016

April 9, 2016Sacramento OS Show20162473AOS Show Trophy84 pointsExhibited by Jeff Tyler Description: A 6 x 4-ft table top display consisting of a variety of approximately 50 orchid species well-grown and very floriferous; left side to center of the display for the larger plants with the center to right for the smaller plants; the mounted plants […]

09Apr 2016

April 9, 2016Sacramento OS Show20162471Paph. rothschildianum ‘Dark Angel’  speciesAM 89Exhibited by Fred Capricio Description: Four flowers and one bud on one 60-cm inflorescence; cupped sepals dark chartreuse striped dark oxblood; petals downswept, margins undulate and hirsute proximally, dark chartreuse, spots oxblood coalesce to stripes and fully suffuse distally; pouch heavily suffused dark oxblood; staminode tan, […]

09Apr 2016

April 9, 2016Sacramento OS Show20162472Den. Silver King ‘Ginny’(Den. Peter Shen x Den. Silver Wings)HCC 78Exhibited by Virginia Grove Description: Nineteen flowers and two buds on six (2 are immature) erect inflorescences; sepals and petals white with random faint lavender veins, heavier lavender veins at apex; lip darker lavender; anther cap white; substance good; texture matte. […]

06Apr 2016

April 6, 201620162462Leptotes bicolor ‘Little Ben’speciesAM 85Exhibited by Gold Country Orchids Description: Twenty nicely arranged 4N flowers on 10 inflorescences; sepals and petals white; lip white, side lobes light green, midlobe white overlaid magenta basally; column and anther cap light green; substance firm; texture crystalline. Measurements in cm.  Ns  5.3  nsv  6.0  Dsw  0.9  dsl […]

06Apr 2016

April 6 201620162458Sarcochilus Kulnura Dazzel ‘Elizabeth Anne’(Sarc. Glowing Embers x Sarc. Elegance)AM 82Exhibited by James G. Morris Description: Eighty-one flowers and six buds on six gracefully arched inflorescences; sepals and petals velvet raspberry red, white apical third on reverse; lip saccate, bright yellow, barred orange; anther cap white; substance firm; texture matte. Measurements in cm. […]

06Apr 2016

April 6, 201620162457Paph. rothschildianum ‘Paradise Lost’ speciesAM 85Exhibited by Dave Sorokowsky Description: Three striking flowers and one bud on one erect inflorescence; sepals and petals chartreuse intensely striped mahogany, petals hirsute at margins; pouch chartreuse overlaid dark cordovan, staminode light chartreuse, hirsute; substance firm; texture waxy. Measurements in cm.  Ns  28.0  nsv  13.1  Dsw  5.7 […]

06Apr 2016

April 6, 201620162460Leptotes bicolor ‘Gold Country Orchids’speciesFCC 90Exhibited by Gold Country Orchids Description: Fifteen striking 4N flowers on seven inflorescences; sepals and petals pure white; lip white, side lobes lightly blushed green, midlobe white overlaid fuchsia; column light blushed purple; anther cap light green, blushed purple; substance firm; texture crystalline. Measurements in cm.  Ns  6.1 […]

06Apr 2016

April 6, 201620162459Leptotes bicolor speciesAQExhibited by Gold Country Orchids Description: One previously awarded AM, two AMs and one FCC to a group of thirteen plants; recognized for improvement of general form, color, size and floriferousness, both parents counted 4N; grex ‘Big Ben’ x ‘Lincoln Hills’; hybridized by Alan Koch of Gold Country Orchids in Lincoln, […]

06Apr 2016

April 6, 201620162461Leptotes bicolor ‘Harley Koch’ speciesAM 84Exhibited by Gold Country Orchids Description: Seven fairly flat 4N flowers on four inflorescences; sepals and petals lanceolate, white; lip white, overlaid fuchsia on proximal two-thirds, side lobes light green; column olive green, brushed brown laterally; anther cap green; substance firm; texture diamond dust. Measurements in cm.  Ns […]

02Apr 2016

April 2, 201620162456Phrag. Robert C. Silich ‘Memoria Richard Lutz’(Phrag. Jason Fischer x Phrag. Mem. Dick Clemens)HCC 78Exhibited by Leta Lutz Description: Two pleasing flowers and two buds on two upright inflorescences; dorsal sepal and petals orange-red, margins papillos, synsepal yellow overlaid orange-red, pouch yellow overlaid orange-red veined darker; substance medium, texture light crystalline. Measurements in […]

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