Show Table March 2006
Monthly meetings include a show table of members’ plants. Six ribbons are awarded each month: four awards are selected by an alternating team of three VAOS member judges. These awards are: one for Best Species, and a First, Second and Third place award to any plant, a Speaker’s Choice award and the VAOS members vote on the plant for Members’ Choice. The following section describes each of these awards for March. Plants are named as presented with minor editing corrections. To view a larger image, click on the photograph.
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First Place: Vanda Fuchs Violetta ‘Crown Fox’ AM/AOS
Grower: Patti Rapoport This hybrid of V. Kretcant by V. Kasem’s Delight was registered in 1990. Two clones have been awarded; ‘Crown Fox’ received its AM/AOS award in 2003 on a plant shown at the South African Orchid Council Show in Pietermartzburg, South Africa. |
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Second Place: Paph. Shin-Yi’s Pride
Grower: Katie Caldwell This is a cross of Paph. Michael Koopowitz by Paph. rothschildianum that was registered in 2001. Twelve AOS awards have been granted to this grex. This second generation hybrid brings together three outstanding multifloral Paphiopedilum species, phillippinense, sanderianum and rothschildianum. Other second generation hybrids with each of these species occuring once in the background are Paph. Angel Hair and Paph. Kemp Tower. |
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Third Place: Ascda. Fuch’s Midnight Delight
Grower: Orchids Etc. A hybrid of V. Pat Delight and Ascda. Yip Sum Wah that was registered in 1990. Two clones of this grex have received AOS awards. This is a complex hybrid with eight generations in its background. The Yip Sum Wah parent is used for its intense color and its well-formed, many flowered inflorescence. |
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Species of the Month: Dendrobium peguanum
Grower: Bill Timm A species from India and Burma. This miniature will produce over ten flowers on an inflorscence and can produce multiple inflorscences on a single bulb. It grows in a region with a long wet and a long dry season and temperatures which can go up to 100º F and down to near freezing – environmental conditions which should make it choice for lanai growers in our region. |
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Speaker’s Choice: Basket of Tolumnias
Grower: Katie Cladwell This wonderful display of a variety of Tolumnias illustrating the many color forms of these delightful minitures caught the attention of our speaker, Bill Fender. |
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Members’ Choice: Cym. Hirokadzu Grauda ‘Chanel #5’
Grower: Bob and Barbara Wagner This cross of Cym. pumilum by Cym. Rosanna registered in 1966 was part of an effort to breed miniature species to standard Cymbidiums to create fuller flower plants that would grow with ease in South Florida. The exhibited plant carried several inflorescences in full flower. |
Judges were Katie Caldwell, Lindalee Anderson and Walter Perrin.
27 plants from 13 exhibitors were shown.