April 2003 Plant Table – Venice Area Orchid Society

Show Table April 2003

Monthly meetings include a show table of members’ plants. Six ribbons are awarded each month: four awards are selected by an alternating team of three VAOS member judges. These awards are: one for Best Species, and a First, Second and Third place award to any plant. The monthly speaker chooses the Speaker’s Choice and the VAOS members vote on the plant for Members’ Choice. The following section describes each of these awards for April 2003. To view a larger image, click on the photograph.

	First Place Award, Members’ Choice and Speaker’s Choice: Lc. John Mossman Grower: Chris Simco A large cattleya plant with 27 flowers and 2 buds on 10 spikes. This cross was registered in 1966 and is fifty percent C. mossiae, other Cattleya species and just 3 percent Laelia tenebrosa. The success of this plant in three different levels of judging shows that well grown plants producing prolific flowering have strong appeal. The cross, John Mossman, does not have a “strong’ pedigree – none of its sister plants, nor its parents or their sisters were ever awarded.
	Second Place Award: Catasetum Black Jade Grower: Bill and Connie Timm A bright green catasetum flower. Two spikes with a total of 33 flowers. This is a cross of two species (russellianum x expansum) registered in 1991.
	Third Place Award: Dendrobium Green Lantern Grower: Ted and Marty Kellogg A young plant, purchased a little over a year ago from H&R in a two inch pot. Current flowering has 11 flowers on main stem and two flowers on older stem. Parents are Dawn Maree x curentum. Dawn Maree’s parents are formosum x cruentum, making Green Lantern 75% cruentem.
	Best Species Award: Jumellea arachnantha Grower: Bill and Connie Tim Bill and Connie received a CCM for the culture of this clone in 1991. The current plant had over sixty flowers in bloom.

Judges: Sue Fender, Bill Camp, Norm Weber

63 plants from 27 exhibitors were shown.