Show Table January 2010
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 January. There was no Speaker’s Choice award this month. 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: Miltassia Charles M. Fitch ‘Izumi’ AM/AOS
Grower: Dale Richter An exceptionally well grown plant with four inflorescences, two in flower. The hybrid is a cross of Brassia verrucosa and Miltonia spectablis registered by Fitch in 1961. Carmela orchids exhibited the clone ‘Izumi’ when it was awarded in 1997. |
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Second Place and Members Choice: Rhyncholaeliocattleya Goldenzelle ‘Lemon Chiffon’ AM/AOS
Grower: Sherry Beck The brightly colored flowers of ‘Lemon Chiffon’ brighten the exhibit table. The hybrid is a cross of Rlc. Fortune x C. Horace and was registered in 1982. The cross represents one of the major hybridizing lines used in creating yellow and art shade Cattleyas. |
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Third Place: Mo. Painted Desert x Ctsm. tenebrosum
Grower: Ted and Marty Kellogg And interesting cross of the notogenus Fredclarkeara. This hybrid is yet to be registered and was shown on its first blooming. |
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Species of the month: Bulbophyllum lilacinum
Grower: Bill Timm The short inflorescence carried about 40 lilac colored flowers. The species is from Malaya and Thailand. Because of its short inflorescence, it is often grown on a slab. It likes a warm and wet environment. |
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Members Choice: Cattleya Chia Lin ‘New City’ AM/AOS
Grower: Anna Sibelle This is hybrid of Rlc Oconee and Rlc. Maitland registered in 1989. The clone ‘New City’ was awarded in 2001. The dark red color and deep red velvet lip made it a ‘Member’s Choice.’ |
Judges were Susan Fender, Bill Fender and Patty Rapoport
15 plants from 8 exhibitors were shown.