Show Table August 2009
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 members. 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 : Epidendrum Green Hornet
Grower: Carol Wood Carol purchased this plant from Featherstone Orchids as a hybrid of Epi cochleatum x Epi lancifolium. These parents have long been known as Encyclia, and more recently as Prosthectea. Since the original naming of the hybrid, the hybridizer has restated that lancifolium used was really trulla, and that is reflected in the RHS registry. But was it, or was that simply an attempt to maintain the hybrid name – because if the parent was really lancifolium, that is synonymous to cochleata. Regardless of the naming confusion, the judges found it deserving of the first place ribbon. |
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Second Place and Members’ Choice: Potinara Susan Fender ‘Cinnamon Stick’ AM/AOS
Grower: Carol Wood A well bloomed example of this grex named after our own Susan Fender by Carter and Holmes in 1992. The clone ‘Cinnamon Stick’ received its AOS award in 1994 when exhibited by the Fenders at a monthly judging in Tampa. Fenders Flora always has this clone available. |
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Third Place: Dendrobium bracteosum
Grower: Margaret Bustamante This species from New Guinea has flowers that last for several months. It is a good plant for our area, the species grows from sea level to about 500 m. The exhibited plant is young; the bulbs can grow to 60 cm. |
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Best Species and Speakers’ Choice: Dendrochilum latifolium
Grower: Bill Timm This species is native to the Philippine Islands. Like many of this genus, it is grown to provide large specimen plants with arched inflorescences gracefully hanging around the circumference of the plant. |
Judges were Vince Sinnott, Charlotte Brawn, Lou Ott, Ross Moore.
12 plants from 7 exhibitors were shown.