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Grower: Bill and Susan Fender

This hybrid of Blc Tassie Barbero x Blc Toshie Aoki was a stunning display of red and yellow with 8 inflorescences and 13 flowers. It was the overwhelming Members’ Choice, earning two-thirds of the votes cast. It has a complex family tree involving several generations and 18 species. The dominant species is C. dowiana.

Grower: Roy and Venny Klinger

For the second year in a row, the seocnd place July winner is the same plant. Last year it was shown with six flowers on one inflorescence. This showing had two inflorescences of 10 flowers and 6 flowers. It is a hybrid of Lc. Kencolor x C. guttata.

Grower: Jane Carmarota

The AM/AOS award to Blc Greenwich ‘Elmhurst’ was given in Tampa Florida in May of 1976 on a plant exhibited by ‘Orchids by Hauserman’. This flowering by Jane matched the original description: ‘Two flowers on one stem; very striking apple-green lateral and dorsal sepals, lighter green petals, lip cerise with butter-yellow deep in throat; extremly heavy substance.

Grower: Roy and Vinney Klinger

This species, native to the Phillipines, was first sent sent to Europe and described by John Lindley in 1840. It makes an exceptionally attractive dsiplay, whether a young plant like the Klinger’s with 28 inflorescences, or one of the eleven CCM/AOS award winners which were shown with 36, several hundred and even more than thousand inflorescences.

Grower: Kathy Lech

Kathy received this plant ‘up north’ and without a species name. The grower told her, “flower it then you can identify which Stanhopea it is”. After growing it for six years she has finally flowered it, but has not yet identified the species.

Taxonomists named several species of Stanhopea based on color which has led to confusion in the names of Stanhopea species. Today, the shape of the lip is key to identifying the species.

Grower: Jackie Weber

June is L. purpurata month! Four L. purpurata plants were on the show table. Unlike other orchid names, the ‘varietal’ name refers only to the color pattern of the flowers; ‘carnea’ means white with flesh-colored veining and lip.

Jackie’s plant had eight flowers on two inflorescences.

Grower: Patti and Arnie Rapoport

Bl. Richard Mueller hybrids are known for there rapid growth and freeblooming ways. The Rapoports’ plant had 19 flowers on 6 inflorescences. The hybrid has not been registered.

Grower: Monroe Kokin

This L. purpurata had twelve flowers on three inflorescences. Because of the identification of a ‘clone x sibling’ we know we have a seedling which could be classified by its color. The deep purple lip creates a striking contrast with the white of the sepals and petals.

Grower: Don Mitchell

Don’s plant had over 40 inflorescences distributed around the plant. As a Florida native species, this is always a favorite when presented as a well grown specimen.

Grower: Fender’s Flora (Bill and Susan Fender)

Bill indicates that he has grown many clones of this species and this is one of the most impressive. The plant had 13 flowers on 13 inflorescences. It is an excellent example of the large, frilly lip that made this species an important part of breeding the large lip Cattleya type flowers.

Growers: Bill and Betsy Scevola

This plant had 18 inflorescences with 10-20 flowers per inflorescence creating a massive floral display. It is a cross of Encyclia cordigera x Enc. Atroniceus registered in 1997 by Hawaiian Fl. Nursery. The parent, Enc. Atroniceus, was a cross registered by Jones and Scully in 1960.

The Enc. cordigera parent has also been known as Epi.(Enc.) atropurpurea and many other synonyms.

Grower: Jane Camoratta

This hybrid Dendrobium has not yet been named. It combines the spidery shape of Dend. tobaense with the full fower of Dend. formosum to create a well-balanced. white flower with an intensely colored lip. The exhibited plant had three flowers and nine buds on three canes.

Grower: Monroe Kokin

Shown with two flowers on one inflorescense, this plant is an excellent example of the high quality, interesting offspring produced by Paph. rothschildianum. The cross of Paph. malipoense x Paph. rothschildianum was registered in 1995 by Paphanatics. The most recent award to this grex was an FCC of 92 points in 2002 to a plant with five flowers and three buds on three inflorescences.

Grower: Richard Amos

An interesting form of this species that grows in Florida and much of the tropical Americas. It is reported to have a strong ‘honey’ fragrance. This clone was recognized with the Judges Commendation award by the AOS in 1986 for the “clarity of unspotted yellow color of the sepals and petals and white lip…”