January 2007 Plant Table – Venice Area Orchid Society

Show Table January 2007

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. In January there was a three-way tie in the voting 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.

	First Place, Speaker’s Choice and Members’ Choice: Brassavola cordata (subulifolia). Grower: Kathy Caldwell A hanging mount encircled by the plant and flowers. Each of the thirty or so inflorescences carried a dozen or more flowers. Brassavola subulifolia was described by Lindly in 1831, five years before he provided the name Brassavola cordata. While the name Brassavola cordata has been most commonly used in the orchid trade for many years, the name accepted by the Kew’s World Checklist is Brassavola subulifolia.
	Second Place: Cattleytonia Starrlynn Grower: Patti Rapoport The picture shown does not fairly reflect the intense red coloring of this hybrid of Ctna. Capri by Ctna. Why Not registered in 1996. Several inflorescences carried four of five flowers each.
	Third Place and Members’ Choice: PaphiopedilumTop Knock Grower: Bill Timm A single, flat, well-held flower caught the judges attention. This hybrid of Paph. Knock Knock by Paph. Prelude was registered in 2005. While it has a complex parentage, it strongly shows its heritage influenced by Paph. Maudiae, a primary hybrid of Paph. callosum by Paph. lawrenceanum.
	Species of the Month: Trigonidium egertonianum Grower: Bill Timm A well grown plant about 30 inches across and128 inches high had 15 open flowers and numerous young inflorescences. The small flowers, 1-2 centimeters in size, are held just below the height of the leaves. One could walk past this plant and not even notice it was in flower.
	Members Choice: Blc.Joann Yakimura x C. Chocolate Drop Grower: Patrick Casey A very well-flowered plant of this unregistered hybrid. The C. Chocolate Drop added a luminescent texture to the flower color. With fifteen flowers on five inflorescences it was the ‘showiest’ plant on the table.

Judges were Peg Thompson, Phyllis Walton, Jeff Higel.

Fifteen plants from 6 exhibitors were shown.