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October 2008 Plant Table

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Show Table October 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 October – there was no speaker this month. Plants are named as presented with minor editing corrections. To view a larger image, click on the photograph.

First Place: Bulbophyllum Fantasia

Grower: Richard Amos

This hybrid of B. Fascination x B. fascinator was registered in 1997. Richard has grown a large plant that had 80-100 inflorescences.
Second Place: Aliceara Memoria Jay Yamada ‘Kauai’

Grower: Sharon and Carl Ivanik

This hybrid of Brassidium Kenneth Bivin by Miltassia Aztec was registered in 1999. The nicley held and formed flowers earned the ribbon. Various pictures of ‘Kauai’ forms exist and the name may reference a source rather than a clone.
Third Place: Debndrobium Emma Lai

Grower: Carol Wood

This appears to be an unregistered hybrid of the dendrobium phalaenopsis group. It was very floriferous, each cane producing about 6 inflorescences.
Species of the Month: Renthenera matutina

Grower: Roy Klinger

A well-flowered single inflorescence of this speices from Malaya, Sumatra, Java, Boreno and the Phillipines was described in 1833.
Members Choice: Dendrobium Salaya Red

Grower: Dale Richter

A brightly colored denbrobium phalaenopsis type hybrid with flares on the petals. Parents are not known – web page references indicate that this is a trade name for an unregistered hybrid. It was Dale’s first ribbon award at the plant table.

Judges were Ted and Marty Kellogg.

Eleven plants from 8 exhibitors were shown.

September 2008 Plant Table

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Show Table September 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 September. Plants are named as presented with minor editing corrections. To view a larger image, click on the photograph.

First Place and Species of the Month: Phalaenopsis gigantea

Grower: Richard Amos

Richard reported that this was the first bloom on a plant that was a small seedling three years ago. The species is from Borneo. It has been used extensively in hybridizing and is the background of many new hybrid types.
Second Place, Speaker’s Choice and Members’ Choice: Phalaenopsis bellina ‘Montclair’

Grower: Richard Amos

A exceptionally nice form of this species with intense colors. The plant was grown in a tree fern Basket and had eight flowers.
Third Place: Cycnodes JEM’s Golden Rain

Grower: Ted and Marty Kellogg

This hybrid of Mormodes Unisin x Cycnoches herrenhusanum was registered in 2004. The grex has not produced any awards or offspring.

Judges were Susan Fender, Ed Soentglen, Mary Zwers, Christine Solakis.

Twenty plants from 9 exhibitors were shown.

August 2008 Plant Table

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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.

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.
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.
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.
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.