Category Archives: Plant table

Grower: Bill and Betsy Scevola.

A large plant with inflorescences about a meter long created a cloud of flowers too large to photograph with any meaning. The massive display of flowers is what brought this plant the votes for Members Choice. The close-up of one branch shows the individual flowers which are about 5 cm. in size.

Grower: Katie Caldwell.

Vanda Yolanda Ulrich is a hybrid of V. Fuchs Fuchsia by V. insignis registered in 2001. Six of its sibling have won AOS awards. The use of the species, such asV. insignis, with the large complex Vanda hybrids has brought interesting shapes and new colors to Vanda breeding.

Grower: Carol Mashoke.

This plant was from a selfing of two clones of E. cochleata – ‘Spider Hill’ and ‘H & R’. The back of the lip is nearly black in color – it is so dark that the lip is nearly invisible on the flower in the upper left of the photograph.

Grower: Bill Timm.

A well grown example of one of the less frequently seen members of the Medusa section of Bulbophyllum. Native to Thailand, Sumatra, Java, Boreno and Malaya it grows well in warm areas of high humidity.

Grower: Ted and Marty Kellogg

This small plant had ten inflorescences, each with 2-4 flowers or mature buds. The tiny tubular flowers are 3 mm in diameter and 8 mm long. The Kelloggs had acquired this plant in 1973 and mounted it on the same mount as it is today. The plant was severely neglected from 1986 through 2001, spending its time in an unheated, pit greenhouse in Rhode Island. The plant deteriorated until brought to Florida in 2002, when it began to flourish.

Grower: Orchids Etc.

This is cross of Vanda Pat Delight by Ascosenda Yip Sum Wah that was registered in 1992. Ascda. has been a very useful parent in helping to get more flowers with good arrangement on an inflorescence. In this case there were 26 flowers and 8 buds on the infloresence.

Grower: Roy Klinger

This intresting plant had 11 flowers on a tall inflorescence. It also appears that this cross was never registered with RHS or won’t show on their database. A Google search shows several listiings for LC. or C. Netrasiri Waxy ‘Jairug’ and some even show an AM award for the clone. If anyone knows the story behind this confusion please send me an email (tmk@uri.edu).

Grower: Sybil Levien

This hybrid, shown under the name above, might be called Paph. Paulsbo which is Paph. kolopakingii x Paph. glanduliferum. The registrar of orchids at the RHS does not recognize Paph. praestans as a separate species, but considers it synonomus with Paph. glanduliferum. The plant shown had four well-presented flowers on one inflorescence.

Grower: Richard Amos

The name, Stanhopea Assidensis sounds like a species – and our judges awarded it as such. However, it is reallly a hybird of Stanhopea wardii x tigrina. The award will stand – it was an outstanding plant. The photograph is taken looking upward at the 10 flowers on 3 inflorescences. One inflorescence appears to be a sport and shows three flowers without any of the maroon coloring. Richard was sure that there were not two different plants in the basket.

Grower: Monroe Kokin

This delightful hybrid presented 20 open inflorescences and had 25 inflorescences in bud. The plant can be grown into a very large specimen – one awarded clone had over 100 inflorescences.

Grower: Noreen Chervinski

An artful display of a primary Paph. hybrid that maintains the long petals of the P. sanderianum parent. The cross was registerd in 1993 and has received at least 18 quality awards.

Grower: Ted and Marty Kellogg

A seedling of a cross between clones ‘Margaret Ilgenfritz’ and ‘Orchidglade’ this plant was purchased in 2003 as an unbloomed seedling from Fender’s Orchids. Two years later it bloomed with 28 flowers and 3 buds on 10 inflorescenes. The flowers have a natural spread of 9 cm.

Cattleya forbesii is native to Brazil from a region near the sea extending south from Rio de Janeiro to Sao Paulo.

Grower: Jane Camarota

This clone exhibits an excellent form of the variety carnea and was well grown by Jane with18 flowers on 5 inflorescences.

Laelia purpurata is native to the coastal regions of Brazil south of Rio de Janeiro. There are probaly over 150 named varities of this species in cultivation. It has been used in orchid hybridizing for over 100 years.

Grower: Ed and Elaine Fox

This is an outstanding example of how to grow a Florida native orchid in Florida. A year ago this plant had over 70 inflorescences and about a thousand flowers; this year the number of inflorescences was estimated at 100 and the number of flowers about 1500.

Grower: Orchids, Etc.

The two photographs below show both the overall view of the plant and the individual blossoms. This same plant had been shown in June 2003 when it won a first place award. At that time it had 28 flowers on three inflorescences. This flowering had 14 inflorescences and about 140 flowers. The species is native to Madagascar and grows in a seasonally dry woodland next to shrubs.