Show Table April 2010
Monthly meetings include a show table of members’ plants. Six ribbons are awarded each month. 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: Phragmipedium Noirmont
Grower: Noreen Chervinski We don’t often get to see brightly colored Phragmipediums on our show table, much less one with three inflorescences, six flowers and spotless leaves. Phrag. Noirmont is a hybrid of Memoria Dick Clements x longifolium registered in 1997. A popular hybrid, it has received 65 AOS awards. |
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Second Place: Dendrobium Yukidaruma ‘King’ AM/AOS
Grower: Bill Timm A well flowered example of this hybrid. The cross was registered in 1973 and the clone ‘King’ received an HCC and AM award on March 18, 1977. The HCC award, occurring first at the Shreveport LA Show, was for a plant with 10 flowers. The AM award was given at the Santa Barbara CA show to a plant with 165 flowers. Since then, five cultural awards have been given to plants with 243 to 460 flowers. |
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Third Place: Dendrobium Yellow Chinsai ‘Little Joe’ HCC/AOS
Grower: Joe Crook An attractive hybrid of Den. Chinsai x aureum this clone received its HCC award in 1987. It has received three cultural awards, the most recent was a plant with 2300 flowers. The plant shown has a good start in creating a massive ball of flowers on a future blooming. |
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Species of the Month: Cattleya aurantiaca ‘Kumquat’ x self)
Grower: Richard Amos A yellow form of Guairanthe aurantiaca, a species from much of Central America on the Pacific side of the mountains at low elevations. The most common form is bright orange but color forms from yellow to red are reported. |
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Members Choice and Speakers Choice: Cymbidium Spectrum ‘Pink Satin’
Grower: Toni Marie Congratulations Toni! Probably the first standard Cymbidium to appear on the VAOS plant table. The fact that this plant grew and bloomed in Venice Florida reflects the ‘cold’ 2010 winter. |
33 plants from 16 exhibitors were shown.
Judges were Betty Anne Brumley, Charlotte Leonard-Braun, Diane Cumming, Ted Kellogg
Photographs by Richard Amos.