Show Table August 2008
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 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 and tied for Members’ Choice: Rhychosophrocattleya Susan Fender ‘Cinnamon Stick’ AM/AOS
Grower: Carol Wood. We see this plants of this clone on the show table often. Carol Wood’s plant probably had the highest bloom mass to size ratio yet. The cross of Rsc. Ceaser’s Head x Sc. Mary Ellen Carter was registered in 1992 and the Fenders received the AM award on this clone in 1994. |
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Second Place: Phalaenopsis violacea
Grower: Joe Crook. This plant had four well held four flowers that caught the judges attention. The species is from Borneo, Sumatra, and Malaya. It grows near lowland rivers and is a good choice for our hot humid area. |
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Third Place : Miltassia Charlie Loo
Grower: Charlie and Margaret Cullen. This is a hybrid of Mssa. Charles M. Fitch and Brassia Edvah Lou registered in 1997. Several inflorescences carried Brassia type flowers with large lips. |
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Species of the Month, Speaker’s Choice and tied for Members’ Choice: Dendrochilum magnum ‘Fiddlehead Farm’ HCC/AOS
Grower: Bill Timm. A good example of how attractive a well grown Dendrochilum can be. The genus has over 300 species. The flowers are all small and produced in large numbers on each inflorescence. Bill provided a magnifying glass so that the beauty of the small flowers could be seen. |
Judges were Sharon Ivanik, Peggy Fahrenback, Yvone Ronzi and Jeff Higel.
About 20 plants were shown.