Paph Freckles "Moonstone"

[littlefrog]

This is labeled "Moonstone" AM/AOS, but I can't find a record of that award anywhere. Anybody have access to the RHS awards list?

Blooming on a single growth plant. Hopefully it will live.

 

[Park Bear]

I like the form of this flower and the spots

 

[Heather]

That's gorgeous!
Reminds me a little of me. The freckles, I mean....

 

[SlipperFan]

For a complex, that is really nice. I hope it lives, also. Will you take it to judging?

 

[paphreek]

Very nice, Rob. :clap:

 

[littlefrog]

For a complex, that is really nice. I hope it lives, also. Will you take it to judging?

It says it already has an AM/AOS, but I can't find any evidence of it in the AQ. There are at least ten awarded Freckles already, I don't know if it is really competitive. What I should really do is snap the flower off and get it to grow more, but I keep waiting for the right thing to use the pollen on...

 

[paphreek]

Compared to my other Freckles, it looks like a Freckles and has similar form to the awarded ones. Could the plant possibly have been judged, but then the exhibitor declined to pay the award registration fee?

 

[littlefrog]

That was one of my thoughts. I got it from a guy who is a judge, so I doubt it was his award. He would have paid for it. But who knows where he got it from.

 

[paphreek]

That was one of my thoughts. I got it from a guy who is a judge, so I doubt it was his award. He would have paid for it. But who knows where he got it from.

I have a similar plant, which I have yet to bloom. It is Paph (Whitemoor x Ravenhunter) 'Orchid Loft'. I bought it from an AOS judge who told me that the plant was awarded, but the owner declined to register the cross. Because of this, the award was never registered.