Show Table April 2009
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 members. 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 April. Plants are named as presented with minor editing corrections. To view a larger image, click on the photograph.
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First Place: Catasetum Black Knight
Grower: Bill Timm An excellent example of a primary hybrid of Ctsm. expansum x Ctsm tenebrosum. A well formed inflorescence held over twenty flowers. The contrast of the yellow lip callus, the bright green center lip and the chocolate brown petals and sepals drew everyone’s attention. |
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Second Place: Cattleya Helen Peterson ‘Kensington’ AM/AOS
Grower: Carol Wood This plant is one of the many offspring of the famous white Cattleya, Bob Betts. The hybrid was registered in 1961 and the flower award was received in 1979. |
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Third Place: Phalaenopsis ?
Grower: ? The web master has either lost the identification or the plant was submitted without a name or exhibitor listed. A very nice ‘table top’ phalaenopsis with three inflorescence. |
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Best Species, Members’ Choice and Speaker’s Choice: Paphiopedilium lowii
Grower: Ted and Marty Kellogg This species is from the Philippines. The plant shown was purchased at an VAOS auction and had 8 inflorescence with 30 flowers and buds. The plant is one of the Krull-Smith Paph lowii seedlings. |
29 plants from 14 exhibitors were shown.