Show Table May 2008
Monthly meetings include a show table of members’ plants. Six ribbons are awarded each month: four awards are selected by an alternating team of 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 May. Also shown is a Miltonia that arived late for table judging, but represents a well grown plant for central Florida. Plants are named as presented with minor editing corrections. To view a larger image, click on the photograph.
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First Place, Members’ Choice and Speaker’s Choice: Catyclia Teresa De Hasbun
Grower: Richard Amos Several inflorescences filled with Encyclia like flowers each with an intense rose purple spot on the white lip caught everyone’s attention. The Cattleya heritage was from C. violacea as a great grandparent, and the purple spot may be the only visiable element left of this species. The cross was registered by R. F. Orchids in 2002. |
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Second Place: Phalaenopsis Baldan’s Kaleidoscope ‘Golden Treasure’ AM/AOS
Grower: Ted and Marty Kellogg Three inflorescences were well-staked to give room to the 39 flowers on this familar clone. There is an CCM/AOS award to a plant of this clone with 71 flowers on 10 buds – twice what this plant had. |
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Third Place: Jacquinara Roy Yahiro ‘Izumi’
Grower: Chris Simco To most of us, the genus name is probably unfamilar. Its pedigree contains 13 speices from 5 genera (as per today’s naming…). A simpler version is to describe this as a Chocolate Drop cross. |
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Species of the Month: Leptotes bicolor
Grower: Ted and Marty Kellogg A ‘4n’ form of this species purchased from J &L orchids in Connecticut. It is one of the few plants which has successfully transferred from growing ‘up north’ to Florida. The species is found from Brazil to Paraguay. |
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Worthy of Note: Miltonia Hurricane Ridge ‘Sylvia’
Grower: Orchids Etc. Seldom do we get to see cool growing Miltonias at our meetings, and even rarer is one that is a beautiful specimen. This plant arrived after judging and was not considered for the show table awards. |
Judges were Sherman Shonk, Susan Quagliano, and Sue Inman.
21 plants from 11 exhibitors were shown.