August 2003 Plant Table

Grower: Bill and Susan Fender, Fender’s Orchids

Six spikes with over seventy flowers and forty buds. A vigorous growing plant originally on a slab and now overgrowing a basket. The plant wasn’t repotted, just grown on in the basket. Bill warned that the plant is intolerant of being disturbed – this one hasn’t been in some time. The plant was in very good condition.

The species was first described by John Lidley in 1836. Using DNA studies, Chase and Williams have recently placed this Oncidium in the Trichocentrum group and have named it Trctm. lanceanum.

Grower: Roberta Williams.

A hybrid of (Lc Wailea and Blc Waikiki Gold) registered by Kodama’a in 1991. It is a very complex hybrid, extending for eleven generations. Sixteen differnent species are part of the background, with C. forbesii accounting one third of the heritage and C. bicolor, C. guttata and C. loddigesii another third. Three Laelia and Brassavola digbyana species are also included.

This plant had five well-presented flowers on one spike.

Grower: Katie Caldwell.

A hybrid of Ascda. Crownfox Sunshine by Ascda. Fuch’s Gold registered in 2001 by R. F. Orchids. This cross was granted an Award of Quality for outstanding color and exceptional flower form, substance and arrangement at the West Palm Beach Monthly Judging in Oct. 2001. The cross has already received 4 AM/AOS and 1 HCC/AOS awards.

Grower: Monroe Kokin.

A recently registered hybrid (2002) of C. Cognac ‘The Best’ by C. Fort Motte ‘Cheetan.’ It is a relatively simple hybid reflecting five generations of mostly species breeding. The species in the background are: C. aclandiae, C. guttata, C. loddigesii, C. bicolor and C. intermedia.