Show Table July 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 July. 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: Lc. Hausermann’s Sultan
Grower: Venny and Roy Klinger With an eye catching twenty-three flowers on four inflorescences, Roy’s plant finally won the first place award for the show table (it had earned the second palce award in 2003 and 2004). This showing doubled the number of inflorescences and flowers from when it was last shown. It is a hybrid of Lc. Kencolor x C. guttata. |
 
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Second Place: “A collection of ‘Butterfy’ Orchids”
Growers: Ted and Marty Kellogg Four Psychopsis hybrids, all with Psy. papilio strongly in their background were shown as a group. The group included one infloresence with two flowers opening back to back and another with the flower in the process of opening. The intensity and form of the chestnut markings varied considerably. All of the hybrids originated from Carter and Holmes. |
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Third Place (tie): Two plants of a clone of Lc. Netrasiri Waxy shown by two different growers.
Growers: Lindalee Anderson (top or left) and Ted and Marty Kellogg A plant of this clone was shown last July. At that time, the comment was “It also appears that this cross was never registered with RHS or won’t show on their database. A Google search shows several listiings for Lc. or C. Netrasiri Waxy ‘Jairug’ and some even show an AM award for the clone. If anyone knows the story behind this confusion please send me an email (tmk@uri.edu).” This year we also had a clone of Lc. Loog Tone on the table – and the Netrasiri Waxy looked just like it. Maybe it is a case of name proliferation through meristemming… |
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Species of the Month: Bulbophyllum (Cirrhopetalum) frostii
Grower: Bill Timm A warm growing Bulbophyllum species from the lowland evergreen forests of Vietnam. It has been known as a Cirropetalum and as Bulbophyllum bootanoides. The flowers are about 3 cm. long. |
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Speaker’s Choice: Blc. Williette Wong ‘The Best’ AM/AOS
Grower: Bob Hague Three large flat yellow flowers with a striking red lip drew the attention of the speaker. This clone was awarded in 1999 and is the result of a cross of Blc. Tassie Barbero by Blc. Toshie Aoki registered in 1990. The cross represents complex yellow Cattleya breeding with 18 species introduced over 8 generations in its background. |
21 plants from 9 exhibitors were shown.
Judges were Katie Caldwell, Lindalee Anderson, John Masters.