UH800 ‘Uniwai Mist’

University of Hawaii
Horticulture Digest #91, March 1990

UH800 (=K840) is one of 16 amphidiploids evaluated recently along with the five UH cultivars, UH44, UH232, UH306, UH503, and UH507, released earlier. Results of the experiment were detailed in HITAHR Extension Series 105 entitled ‘Evaluation of 16 Seed-propagated Amphidiploid Dendrobium Progenies”, which was published in 1989.

Table 1 compares the characteristics of UH800 with those of UH306. The performance of UH800 was about equal to that of UH306 in every characteristic. Consequently, this cross was repeated and released in order to complement the UH306, the major white cultivar in commercial cut flower production.

In keeping with the nomenclature of the previously released amphidiploid seed-propagated cultures – ‘Uniwai Blush’ (UH44), ‘Uniwai Supreme’ (UH232), ‘Uniwai Pearl’ (UH306), ‘Uniwai Prince’ (UH503), and ‘Uniwai Princess’ (UH507) – we have given the horticultural designation ‘Uniwai Mist’ for UH800. ‘Uniwai Mist’ is a cross between our inbred amphidiploid D. Jaquelyn Thomas ‘K159-21’ and amphidiploid D. Jaquelyn Thomas ‘D192’ obtained from Thailand.