This plant, perhaps the seminal green complex paph, is a cross of Sanacderae 'Theresa' x Diversion 'New Orleans' registered by McClellans in 1955. McClellans received the award for this clone in 1967.
The clone 'Brentwood' was awarded 3 times: an AM/ODC to Gordon Hoyt in the Pacific Northwest in 1960, and AM/AOS awards in 1957 and 1960.
'White Cap' is probably the most important progenitor green still in existence, and figures in nearly every modern complex green. Its progeny read like a list of important green breeders from the early 1980s-1990s, and as a grandparent it is nearly unparalleled. It counts among its offspring Kay Rinaman, Todd Clark, Palos Verdes, Buena Bay, Green Hills, Green Mystery, Via Muchos Ninos, and Yerba Nueva, and as well is responsible for highly awarded novelties when bred to brachys like Buenagood and White Alary, and even such rare wide crosses as Plymouth Rock (x Winston Churchill, a surprisingly attractive grex). A tremendous list from a relatively humble and unattractively shaped flower, the propensity to make hybrids with this clone (118 and counting registered offspring) is a testament to its ease of growth and fecundity as a seed producer, two often overlooked traits. It almost uniformly improves its offspring in those traits, while remaining fairly recessive for its poor form. This is one of the most important stepping stones in complex paphs, and I'm proud to own this division, which came from McClellans through noted paph and phal breeder J. Frank Hughes in Santa Cruz.
The clone 'Brentwood' was awarded 3 times: an AM/ODC to Gordon Hoyt in the Pacific Northwest in 1960, and AM/AOS awards in 1957 and 1960.
'White Cap' is probably the most important progenitor green still in existence, and figures in nearly every modern complex green. Its progeny read like a list of important green breeders from the early 1980s-1990s, and as a grandparent it is nearly unparalleled. It counts among its offspring Kay Rinaman, Todd Clark, Palos Verdes, Buena Bay, Green Hills, Green Mystery, Via Muchos Ninos, and Yerba Nueva, and as well is responsible for highly awarded novelties when bred to brachys like Buenagood and White Alary, and even such rare wide crosses as Plymouth Rock (x Winston Churchill, a surprisingly attractive grex). A tremendous list from a relatively humble and unattractively shaped flower, the propensity to make hybrids with this clone (118 and counting registered offspring) is a testament to its ease of growth and fecundity as a seed producer, two often overlooked traits. It almost uniformly improves its offspring in those traits, while remaining fairly recessive for its poor form. This is one of the most important stepping stones in complex paphs, and I'm proud to own this division, which came from McClellans through noted paph and phal breeder J. Frank Hughes in Santa Cruz.
