December 2003 Plant Table – Venice Area Orchid Society

Show Table December 2003

Monthly meetings include a show table of members’ plants. Six ribbons are awarded each month: four awards are selected by an alternating team of three VAOS member judges. These awards are: one for Best Species, and a First, Second and Third place award to any plant. There was no speaker at the December meeting, therefore, no Speakers choice award was given. The VAOS members vote on the plant for Members’ Choice. The following section describes each of these awards for December 2003. To view a larger image, click on the photograph.

	Best Species and Members Choice Award: Angraecum distichum Grower: Richard Amos An amazing ball of attractive green growths with hundreds of small white flowers. This species which was first described by Lindley in 1836 is native to tropical West Africa. Richard says he has been growing the species for many years and this plant is one of the many divisions he has made.
	First Place Award: Ctna. Westmorland Grower: Katie Caldwell A beautifully grown plant with arching branched sprays carrying 45 flowers and 26 buds. This hybrid of Bro. Little London ‘Cutie’ x Ctna. Orglade’s Little Lover ‘Darkie’ was registered by Claude Hamilton in 1999 and has received two AOS awards to date.
	Second Place Award: Blc.California Girl x Blc. Winifred Singeo Grower: Bill and Betsey Scevola One huge flower (20 cm x 20 cm) flower with a frilled royal purple lip. This unregistered hybrid’s lineage is complex. Blc. California Girl includes a line of breeding about 150 years and seven generations; Blc. Winifred Singeo is from a breeding line of over 100 years and seven generations. The parents of this plant were registered in 1983 and 1994.
	Third Place Award: Hknsa/ Sogo Doll ‘Little Angel’ HCC/AOS Grower: Katie Caldwell Six flowers and fifteen buds graced this plant. The genera Hknsa( = Hawkinsara) is a combination of Broughtonia, Cattelya, Laelia, and Sophronitis. The grex Hknsa. Sogo Doll was registered in 1994; the clone ‘Little Angel’ was awarded a 78 point HCC/AOS at the Naples show in 2002.

Judges: Bill Camp, Danielle McCaffree, Glen Hyde

35 plants from 14 exhibitors were shown.