New Website for Chicago Judging Center

Arnold Klehm announced the Chicago Judging Center's new page for their AOS award nominations. http://www.pbase.com/the_aos_cjc/orchids

Dendrobium x usitae 'Orange Fire'

This beautiful natural hybrid from the Philippines was awarded at the Miami Show this week.

CHM/AOS, 83pts
(Den. bullenianum × Den. goldschmidtianumi)
Exhib: Ching Hua Orchids
Miami International Orchid Show
February 26, 2009
NS=1.5, NSV=1.1; DSW=.4, DSL=.9; PW=.5, PL=.9; LSW=.6, LSL=1.3; LW=.5, LL=1.1

note: all awards are provisional until published in AQ+

New Phrag from Colombia

The December 2008 'Lankesteriana' published the description for Phragmipedium manzurii, native to the Department of Santander According to the article this time the taxonomist ( Paula Viveros) travelled to Colombia in order to identify the orchid, instead of the other way around, *G*!

Here's a link to Patricia Harding's picture on Jay Pfahl's Orchid Species Encyclopedia. Kinda cute, doncha think? Two toned.

Phrag. manzurii is in the Micropetalum section of Phragmipedium

Two Shows - Two Awards

Paphiopedilum Vintage Venus 'K.C. Lim'
HCC/AOS, 79pts
(Paph. venustum x Paph. Vintage Harvest)
Exhib: Kerry Richards
Martin County OS; 1-30-09
NS=12.0, NSV=7.8; DSW=5.4, DSL=5.2; PW=3.8, PL=6.0; LSW=3.2, LSL=4.4; LW=2.7, LL=5.4

Paphiopedilum Vintage Venus 'Christina Richards'
AM/AOS, 82pts
(Paph. venustum x Paph. Vintage Harvest)
Exhib:Springwater Orchids
Boca Raton OS; 2-14-09
NS=10.6, NSV=7.9; DSW=5.2, DSL=5.0; PW=3.0, PL=5.1; LSW=3.3, LSL=3.4; LW=2.9, LL=5.1

New Judges Forum

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pictured above:
Cattleya lueddemanniana var. coerulea
'Graf's Vero Blue'AM/AOS, 85pts
Exhib: Plantio La Orquidea
Boca Raton OS Show; 2-14-09
NSW=18.0; NSV=17.5; DSW=2.9, DSL=10.2; PW=7.1, PL=10.3; LSW=2.6, LSL=8.5; LW=4.6, LL=4.0