Show Table March 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. The following section describes each of these awards for March. 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 Speaker’s Choice: Brassolaeliocattleya. Suncoast SunSpots .
Grower: Patti Rapoport Blc. Suncoast Sunspots is a hybrid of Lc. Jungle Elf by Blc. Waianea Leopard registered in 2004. The cross has won four AOS awards, including one at our 2006 Show. The plant shown had three full, flat flowers that were a wonderful spotted yellow with a bright magenta lip. |
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Second Place: Cattleya aurantiaca
Grower: John Masters A well grown and flowered plant presented a striking show of this species. The flowers had good form with no signs that they self polinated as many forms of the this species do. The species was first described in the 1838 (as Epidendrum aurantiaca) and was first used registered as a parent in hybridizing in 1902. Today it is in the background of more than 3000 registered hybirds. |
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Third Place and Members’ Choice: Pot. Chatoyant ‘Great Purple’
Grower: Jane Camorata Three large flowers with hugh velvet purple lips caught the members attention. This hybrid of Pot. Charmides by Blc. South Ghyll is a complex hybird of many generations. C. dowiana and B. digbyana and the breeders’ eyes have all contributed to the large lip found in this hybrid. |
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Species of the Month: Dryadella zebrina
Grower: Bill Timm A very small plant, about 3″ high carried 4 flowers. The species was described as a Masdevallia by Porsch in 1905 and transferred to Dryadella by Leur in 1978. It is from South America occuring in Bolivia, Brazil, Peru and Columbia. The species is reported to like low light and cool temperatures. Bill is growing it well in Sarasota, Fl. |
Judges were Richard Amos, John Masters, Jeff Higel.
Twenty-seven plants from 17 exhibitors were shown.