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Orchid Society of Western Pennsylvania Show
2008
    Masdevallia Peach Melba ‘Barbara’; AM/80pts.
    Parentage: (Peach Fuzz x Angel Tang)
    Exhibited by Barbara Tisherman; Pittsburgh, PA.

    Description:  Two flowers on two upright inflorescences; sepals and
    petals gold softly veined orange and fine purple hairs; caudae
    orange; column red; substance firm; texture velvety.

    Dimensions in centimeters:  Natural Spread:  3.7; Vertical:  13;
    Dorsal Sepal Width:  2; Dorsal Sepal Length:  8; Petal Width:  
    0.10; Petal Length:  0.10; Lateral Sepal Width:  2.6; Lat. Sepal
    Length:  7.7; Lip Width:  0.10; Lip Length:  0.10; Synsepal Width:  
    0; Synsepal Length:  0; Pouch Width:  0; Pouch Length:  0.
    Bulbophyllum longiflorum ‘Windswept's Windmill’; HCC/79pts.
    Parentage: (sp. x )
    Exhibited by Edgar Stehli; Bradview Heights, OH.

    Description:  A charming display of eighty-one flowers on five
    ubellate inflorescences and four developing inflorescences;
    petals and lip solid deep red-violet; dorsal sepal background
    translucent white with deep red-violet spots centrally to solid
    on distal edges and exhibiting a striking thread like appendage
    with a slightly thicker tip; fused lateral sepals pale red-violet
    finely speckled wite; substance medium firm; texture matte;
    petal size estimated due to accessibility.

    Dimensions in centimeters:  Natural Spread:  1.7; Vertical:  
    4.7; Dorsal Sepal Width:  0.80; Dorsal Sepal Length:  1.6;
    Petal Width:  0.20; Petal Length:  0.40; Lateral Sepal Width:  
    1.7; Lat. Sepal Length:  3.8; Lip Width:  0.40; Lip Length:  
    0.59; Synsepal Width:  0; Synsepal Length:  0; Pouch Width:  
    0; Pouch Length:  0
    Paphiopedilum micranthum ‘Pink Zebra’; FCC/91pts.
    Parentage: (sp. x )
    Exhibited by  Marriott Orchids; Greensboro, NC.

    Description:  One stately flower of exceptional conformation
    and clarity of color and markings on a twenty-four cm.
    inflorescence; dorsal sepal and synsepal yellow-green deeply
    and evenly tesselated deep raspberry; petals sharp yellow-
    green richly tesselated deep raspberry fading slightly distally;
    two cm. tesselated margin on reverse of sepals and petals;
    pouch soft pale raspberry externally; fine deep raspberry spots
    internally; pale raspberry staminode yellow distally with small
    spots; substance medium firm; texture velvety.

    Dimensions in centimeters:  Natural Spread:  7.4; Vertical:  
    9.8; Dorsal Sepal Width:  2.7; Dorsal Sepal Length:  3; Petal
    Width:  4; Petal Length:  3.8; Lateral Sepal Width:  0; Lat.
    Sepal Length:  0; Lip Width:  4.7; Lip Length:  7.5; Synsepal
    Width:  2.1; Synsepal Length:  2.5; Pouch Width:  0; Pouch
    Length:  0
    Epidendrum secundum ‘Pretty Lady’; CCM/84pts.
    Parentage: (sp. x )
    Exhibited by  Floradise Orchids; Gordonsville, VA.

    Description:  Approximately one thousand twenty
    flowers and 255 buds on 51 upright inflorescences
    borne on a well grown plant of 96 growths
    measuring 90cm. in height and width showing
    random flushes of reddish pigment grown in a
    25cm. clay pot; sepals and petals light purple; lip
    purple; callus and anther cap white; substance firm;
    texture matte.

    Dimensions in centimeters:  Natural Spread:  1;
    Vertical:  2.5; Dorsal Sepal Width:  0.5; Dorsal
    Sepal Length:  1.5; Petal Width:  0.5; Petal
    Length:  1.5; Lateral Sepal Width:  0.59; Lat. Sepal
    Length:  1.5; Lip Width:  1.3; Lip Length:  1.5;
    Synsepal Width:  0; Synsepal Length:  0; Pouch
    Width:  0; Pouch Length:  0
Pleurothallis cypripedioides ‘Cottonelle’; CCM/84pts.
Parentage: (sp. x )
Exhibited by Edgar Stehli; Bradview Heights, OH.

Description:  Nineteen flowers and eleven buds on eleven pendant wire-like
sequential flowering inflorescences emerging from leaf bases on a 43 growth
plant fourteen cm. wide by fourteen cm. high mounted on osmunda fiber;
dorsal sepal hooded over connate pouch like lateral sepals; flowers pale
green striped maroon on exterior covered with dense white hairs on interior;
column pale green; substance firm; texture matte.

Dimensions in centimeters:  Natural Spread:  0.59; Vertical:  1.1; Dorsal
Sepal Width:  0.40; Dorsal Sepal Length:  0.80; Petal Width:  0.10; Petal
Length:  0.10; Lateral Sepal Width:  0.59; Lat. Sepal Length:  1; Lip Width:  
0.10; Lip Length:  0.10; Synsepal Width:  0; Synsepal Length:  0; Pouch
Width:  0; Pouch Length:  0
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