Show Table August 2006
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, 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 August. Plants are named as presented with minor editing corrections. To view a larger image, click on the photograph.
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First Place, Speaker’s Choice and Members’ Choice: Cirr. (Bulb.) Daisy Chain
Grower: Monroe Kokin Whether your preference is to call this hybird of Bulb. (Cirr.) makoyanum x Bulb. (Cirr.) amesianum this well-grown and well-flowered plant captured three awards at the show table. The cross was registered in 1969 and has been awarded twice for culture – the specimen exhibited easily reached the standard of those awards. It had over 70 inflorescenses and many more just beginning to appear. The choice of the genus name depends on which authority one consults. According to the Monocot Project Checklist by Kew, all plants horticulturally known as Cirrhopetalums are Bulblophyllums, and theerfore each parent is a Bulbophyllum species. However, the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), which maintains the records of orchid hybrids, currently considers this hybrid a Cirrhopetalum. Since the American Orchid Society follows the RHS for naming hybrids, this is technically a Cirrhopetalum. Most growers accept either genus name on this hybrid. |
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Second Place: Blc. Alex Mackay
Growers: Chris Simco Six large flowers graced the one inflorescense of this Cattleya hybrid. It is a cross of C. bicolor ‘Bronze Beauty’ AM/AOS x Blc. Owen Holmes ‘Mendenhall’ AM/AOS, registered in 2005. Its intense color and bright lip drew the judges attention. |
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Third Place: Lc. Floralia’s Azul x L. anceps v. veitchianna ‘Fort Caroline’
Growers: Ted and Marty Kellogg A small growing plant, less than 15 cm. tall, carried two coerulea flowers with a natural spread of 9 cm. The plant is several years old and the size of the plant appears to be the mature plant size. The flowers are well-formed and well-held. |
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Species of the Month: Pleurothallis parahybunensis
Growers: Ted and Marty Kellogg While Ted believes he collected this plant many, many years ago in Ecuador, the only recorded occurance of the species is from Brazil. The identification was done by Carl Luer. The small flowers have an intense, dark red brown coloring. It seems to be thriving growing in Florida.
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20 plants from 10 exhibitors were shown.
Judges were Bob Hague, Barbara Wagner, Ken Dolan.