July 2008 Plant Table

Show Table July 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 July. There was a panel presentation and no Speaker’s Choice Award. Plants are named as presented with minor editing corrections. To view a larger image, click on the photograph.

First Place : Caulocattleya Chantilly Lace ‘Twinkle’ HCC/AOS

Grower: Sue Quagliano.

The unusal markings of this clone attracted the judges attention. The hybrid of C. El Dorado Splash and Cau. bicornutum was registered in 1996 and the HCC award was granted in 2002.

The plant shown had niine flowers on one inflorescence.

Second Place : Rsc. Cumbre en Boringuen

Grower: Richard Amos.

This hybrid of Rsc. Oconee by Rsc. Plum Pretty produced well-shaped very dark flowers.

Third Place : Cattleya violacea

Grower: Bob Hague.

The brillant color of C. violacea drew the judges attention. This species ia wide spread in South America, growing at lower elevations, and almost always along streams.

Species of the Month and Members’ Choice: Grammatophyllum scriptum var. citrina

Grower: Richard Amos.

A large plant with seven inflorescences dominated the show table. This species is from the Philippines and surronding area growing at low elevations.

Judges were Jane Carmarota, Frank Camarota, and Shirley Hoffman.

31 plants from 13 exhibitors were shown.

June 2008 Plant Table

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

First Place and Members’ Choice: Miltonia Bert Field ‘Crimson Glory’

Grower: Orchids, Etc.

Fifteen inflorescences with 3-4 flowers each made a showy plant representative of a genus we are seldom able to grow well in this part of Florida. The hybrid was registered in 1963.

Second Place: Sophrocattleya June Bug ‘Venice Sunshine’ AM/AOS

Grower: Carol Wood

A miniature cattleya that combines the lip of the C. bicolor parent and the form and plant size of the Sc. Beaufort parent. This clone was awarded at the Venice show in 2001 when shown by Fender’s Flora and is available as a meristem from them today.

Third Place: Laeliocattleya ‘Daisy’

Grower: Elinor Burton

Upright, lavender pink flowers with a nice lip and a bit of flare in the petals brought the ribbon to this plant. While entered as Lc. Daisy, a hybrid of C. mossiae by L. anceps, some questioned the naming because of the flower appears to have L. purpurata in its background.

Species of the Month: Dendrobium delacourii

Grower: Orchids Etc.

This plant was grown superbly on a peice of grape vine. The species is widespread in Southeast Asia growing in deciduous forest and is itself desciduous.

Speakers Choice: Sophronitis (Laelia) purpurata

Grower: Ted and Marty Kellogg.

Twenty-three white flowers with deep crimson lips made an impressive showing of this well-known species. This species is in the background of more than 15,000 hybrids. A forthcoming name change will place this in the gneus Cattleya.

Judges were John Masters, Susan Fender, Bill Fender.

25 plants from 15 exhibitors were shown.

May 2008 Plant Table

Show Table May 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 May. Also shown is a Miltonia that arived late for table judging, but represents a well grown plant for central Florida. Plants are named as presented with minor editing corrections. To view a larger image, click on the photograph.

First Place, Members’ Choice and Speaker’s Choice: Catyclia Teresa De Hasbun

Grower: Richard Amos

Several inflorescences filled with Encyclia like flowers each with an intense rose purple spot on the white lip caught everyone’s attention. The Cattleya heritage was from C. violacea as a great grandparent, and the purple spot may be the only visiable element left of this species. The cross was registered by R. F. Orchids in 2002.

Second Place: Phalaenopsis Baldan’s Kaleidoscope ‘Golden Treasure’ AM/AOS

Grower: Ted and Marty Kellogg

Three inflorescences were well-staked to give room to the 39 flowers on this familar clone. There is an CCM/AOS award to a plant of this clone with 71 flowers on 10 buds – twice what this plant had.

Third Place: Jacquinara Roy Yahiro ‘Izumi’

Grower: Chris Simco

To most of us, the genus name is probably unfamilar. Its pedigree contains 13 speices from 5 genera (as per today’s naming…). A simpler version is to describe this as a Chocolate Drop cross.

Species of the Month: Leptotes bicolor

Grower: Ted and Marty Kellogg

A ‘4n’ form of this species purchased from J &L orchids in Connecticut. It is one of the few plants which has successfully transferred from growing ‘up north’ to Florida. The species is found from Brazil to Paraguay.

Worthy of Note: Miltonia Hurricane Ridge ‘Sylvia’

Grower: Orchids Etc.

Seldom do we get to see cool growing Miltonias at our meetings, and even rarer is one that is a beautiful specimen. This plant arrived after judging and was not considered for the show table awards.

Judges were Sherman Shonk, Susan Quagliano, and Sue Inman.

21 plants from 11 exhibitors were shown.