After dark and under difficult conditions on Friday night, May 6, 20 AOS judges completed the ribbon judging and began AOS judging in four teams at the Houston Orchid Society Show & Sale. The judges granted five quality awards—four to members of HOS and one to a Galveston Bay Orchid Society member. Congratulations to all who participated in this joyous occasion.
Enanthleya Charlie Brown ‘LIB’ (Cattlianthe Rojo x Encyclia cordigera), AM 80, presented by Larry Baker
Fifty-three stellate flowers and 16 buds well arranged on 9 inflorescences; sepals and petals blood red; lip light blood red, striated amethyst from the throat to the column, side lobes light tangerine; substance firm; texture satin.
Guarechea Black Comet ‘Indigo Blue’ (Guarechea Miva Etoile Noir x Prosthechea cochleata), AM 84, presented by Dennis Tomjack
Five starry, non-resupinate flowers and six buds on a sturdy, 37-cm upright inflorescence, four flowers and three buds on a second inflorescence; sepals and petals plum purple, chartreuse basally; lip cupped, dark plum purple marginally, chartreuse centrally with dark purple radiating lines, column chartreuse; substance firm; sepal and petal texture satin, lip texture matte.
Phalaenopsis Liu’s Berry ‘Amazing Grace’ (Eduardo Quisumbing x parishii), HCC 78, presented by Yvonne Li and Jay Kwan
Twenty-one pleasing flowers and seven buds on one judged, arching 36.0-cm inflorescence, nine flowers and four buds on a second inflorescence; sepals elliptical, white, suffused pink; petals obovate, white, suffused pink; lip trilobed, side lobes yellow spotted carmine proximally, carmine distal third, midlobe deltoid, carmine, midvein pink; column white, blushed carmine, anther cap white; substance firm; texture crystalline, lip matte; plant 27.5 cm wide and 8.5 cm tall.
