Show Table September 2007
Monthly meetings include a show table of members’ plants. Speaker’s choice and members’ choice ribbons are awarded.VAOS members vote on the plant(s) for Members’ Choice. The following section describes each of these awards for September. Plants are named as presented with minor editing corrections. To view a larger image, click on the photograph.
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Members’ Choice: Dendrobium Eima Lai
Grower: Carol Wood This ‘table top’ Dendrobium presented a substantial mass of flowers and many more buds to come. The plant is named as presented, but it is not listed as a registered hybrid. Vendors of plants like this often invent a name for marketing purposes, but the specific parentage may be unknown. |
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Speaker’s Choice: Cattleya bicolor
Grower: Joe Crook A young plant with just two flowers on a species that can produce up to ten flowers. The rich, uniform color and the well-held lip were outstanding attributes of this plant. Note that the lip has no side lobes wraping the column, a characteristic which is a distinquishing feature of the speices. |
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Cycnoches Jean E. Monnier. This seedling, blooming for the first time, had a very intersting spotted color pattern and spotting that extended to the lip. Exhibited by Andrea May. |
Aeranthes grandiflora? This plant was entered without a name and is likely to be the species listed. It had several flowers on long, thing infloresences. Exhibited by Nichole Dwyn. |
36 plants from 15 exhibitors were shown.