I love it too, Wendy. Given the awards it has won I'd love to be able to grow
it to its full potential.

Judging shape? I try not to get too deeply involved with judging criteria -
knowing their bad points tends to spoil my enjoyment of my orchids. However:

Judging by "general" judges - I don't really know.

Judging by A(ustralasian) N(ative) O(rchid) S(ociety) judges: To judge for ANOS
I believe they are expected to have a good knowledge of the contributions
expected by the component species, & hence the kind of thing to expect in terms
of shape etc from a hybrid. eg longer, more erect antlers would be typical of
antennatum, & therefore expected in order to be judged highly. I guess after
that it's a case of how well this apple resembles a very good apple, when
compared with the quality of that orange.

Any ANOS judges lurking who can make a more useful contribution than this?

On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 14:08:34 -0800, "Wendy7" wrote:

This one takes the cake or steals the show Dave,
Speaking of shows, if one should take this one in how do the judges judge
for shape?
The antelope type flowers are all different.
Cheers Wendy


"Dave Gillingham" wrote in message
.. .
I bought this at a show a couple of years ago. The tag indicated its clone
name
was 'Oka'. In fact - and now I'm going to air my complete ignorance of
awards -
what the original tag has on it is:
Dendrobium Blue Sparkle 'Oka' AM/AOS

Its genealogy is:
D. gouldii 50%
D. nindii 37.5%
D. lineale 6.25%
D. schroderianum 6.25%




Dave Gillingham
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