Photo of the 2010 provided by TonyNacinovich
June 2010 Plant Table
Show Table June 2010
Monthly meetings include a show table of members’ plants. Six ribbons are awarded each month. 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. Plants are named as presented with minor editing corrections. To view a larger image, click on the photograph.
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First Place : Paph Honey
Grower: Dorothy Funderburg A gorgeous and well grown Paphiopedilum. This is a cross of papiopedilum ( primulinium x phillipense var roebellii). We were fortunate that this plant chose to be in peak bloom for our meeting. Dorothy said she has cared for this plant for many years. It is one of her favorites. |
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Second Place : Bulbophyllum Star of Sumatra
Grower: Monroe Kokin This beautiful flower definitely caught the attention of the judges. This is a hybrid of Bulbo. sumatranum and echinolabium. RHS do not recognize Bulbo sumatranum as a separate species but treats it as a synonym to Bulbophyllum lobbii var. breviflorumhe. The flower is about 3″ across. |
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Third: Paravanda Mecca’s Candy ‘Sweet Tooth’
Grower: Carol Wood It’s wonderful to see something new at every meeting. This cross of Paraphalaenopsis x Vanda teres is something many of us have never seen. This clone has beautiful lavender flowers with a brownish red lip and was awarded HCC/AOS with 77 points. |
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Best Species and Speaker’s Choice: : Dockrillia wassellii
Grower: Roy Klinger Dockrillia wassellii is a dendrobium species found in Australia. This plant has small but attractive inflorescences of pure white. The foliage is attractive as well, resembling small cacti. With a plant table loaded with attractive species, this plant was well grown and well bloomed indeed to attract the attention of both the judges and the speaker. |
Photographs by Lynne Pedlar
New Purchase
This is my new purchase from Micheal Sinn. I went to Orchids Etcetera to pick up a birthday present for a friend. Jeff had some beautiful stuff, but nothing he and I thought would work for a new orchid grower. Micheal had some well grown C. purpurata that fit the bill. Then I looked around the bloom shown above caught my eye. Now it’s part of my collection.
The parents of this plant are Slc. Mae Hawkins x C. Chocolate. You may recognize the cross, C. Chocolate x Slc Mae Hawkins is the well known Slc. Tutankamen.
I find it interesting that the seed and pod parents plants being reversed produced so strikingly different flowers.