July 2003 Plant Table – Venice Area Orchid Society

Show Table July 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. The monthly speaker chooses the Speaker’s Choice and the VAOS members vote on the plant for Members’ Choice. The following section describes each of these awards for July 2003. To view a larger image, click on the photograph.

	First Place Award: Epi. (Enc.) Cindy Grower: Jean Terrana. A hybrid of Epi alata by Epi. tampense ‘Casey’s’. The cross Epi. Cindy was registered in 1968. This well grown plant had at least 22 spikes and over 450 flowers.
	Second Place Award, Speaker’s Commendation, Members Choice: Lc. Hausermann’s Sultan ‘Summer Spectacular’ Grower: Venny and Roy Klinger Six flowers on a tall infloresence held well above the leaves. Bright red-purple coloring on the petals, and a vivid purple lip. The waxy texture of the flower added to the striking color of the flower. Two clones of this hybird (Lc. Kencolor x C. guttata, 1980) received awards in the 1980’s. Although each had smaller flowers, one had 16 flowers on one floresence, the other ten.
	Third Place Award: Vanda Libby McCree Grower: Bill Camp A young plant with seven flowers. The cross (V. Mimi Palmer xTrevor Rathbone) was registered in 1981. The species heritage includes sanderiana (30%), tessellata (25%), coerulea (16%) and dearei (14%). Four other species are in its background and the cross represents nine generations of Vanda hybridizing.
	Best Species Award: Epi.ciliare (shown on the plant table as Epi. oerstedii) Grower: Shirley Hoffman A plant from St. Vincent with 11 flowers on two spikes. All flowers in excellent condition.

Judges: Richard Amos, Jo Davis, Walter Perrin

22 plants from 13 exhibitors were shown.