Aloha ODG, I was on the judging team that awarded this plant. It was a spectacular specimen, very well grown in a seven gallon pot with psuedobulbs seeming to be the size of large grapefruit. We obviously did notice that 14 of the inflorescences had more than one flower. We questioned why, because usually there is only one flower per. Doing our research we noted that in 1984 at a show in Caracas, there was an award given to the clone 'Gabriella Sucre' that also had more flowers per inflorescence. The award description reads: "Fourteen flowers and eight buds on twenty inflorescence: ..." The obvious answer to why this clone had more than one flower per was the excellent culture, thus the CCE/AOS. You can see a picture of the plant in flower at: http://us.st12.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/yhst-84809424749559_2009_17966188
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