Show Table January 2006
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, 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 January. Plants are named as presented with minor editing corrections. To view a larger image, click on the photograph.
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First Place and Members’ Choice: Cym. (Kinkazan x Tsurug Awa Bijin) ‘Purple Temple’
Grower: Noreen Chervinski This unregistered hybrid presented 6 upright inflorescences each with 16-20 flowers, and three other inflorescences were in an early growth stage. The impressive display of purple flowers caught the attention of members. A web serach finds that this clone is available from several orchid growers, but neither it, nor its parents, are registered hybrids. |
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Second Place: Lc. Chan Hsiu Jewel ‘Beauty Queen’
Grower: Bob Hague A display of 8 intensely colored flowers on four inflorescences. This hybrid of C. Moscombe by Lc. Wayndora was registered in 1999. Lc. Wayndora has been a parent in many of these uniquely colored hybrids. |
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Third Place: Pot. Free Spirit ‘Carmela’
Grower: John Masters A nicely grown plan twith 10 flowers and four buds. It is a hybrid of Pot. Twentyfour Carat by Sc. Beaufort that was registered in 1990. The grex has earned eleven quality awards and is the parent to many mini cat hybrids. |
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Best Species and Speaker’s Choice: C. percivaliana
Grower: John Masters Fourteen flowers on five inflorescences made an outstanding display onthis Cattleya species. The species is from Venezuela where it grows on rocks in full sun. There are several color forms in cultivtion. It usually has a rich gold color as part of the lip, and it blooms near the Christmas season. |
Judges were Richard Amos, Phyllis Walton aand Mickey Carnell.
30 plants from16 exhibitors were shown.