Show Table October 2008
Monthly meetings include a show table of members’ plants. Six ribbons are awarded each month: four awards are selected by an alternating team of 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 October – there was no speaker this month. Plants are named as presented with minor editing corrections. To view a larger image, click on the photograph.
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First Place: Bulbophyllum Fantasia
Grower: Richard Amos This hybrid of B. Fascination x B. fascinator was registered in 1997. Richard has grown a large plant that had 80-100 inflorescences. |
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Second Place: Aliceara Memoria Jay Yamada ‘Kauai’
Grower: Sharon and Carl Ivanik This hybrid of Brassidium Kenneth Bivin by Miltassia Aztec was registered in 1999. The nicley held and formed flowers earned the ribbon. Various pictures of ‘Kauai’ forms exist and the name may reference a source rather than a clone. |
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Third Place: Debndrobium Emma Lai
Grower: Carol Wood This appears to be an unregistered hybrid of the dendrobium phalaenopsis group. It was very floriferous, each cane producing about 6 inflorescences. |
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Species of the Month: Renthenera matutina
Grower: Roy Klinger A well-flowered single inflorescence of this speices from Malaya, Sumatra, Java, Boreno and the Phillipines was described in 1833. |
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Members Choice: Dendrobium Salaya Red
Grower: Dale Richter A brightly colored denbrobium phalaenopsis type hybrid with flares on the petals. Parents are not known – web page references indicate that this is a trade name for an unregistered hybrid. It was Dale’s first ribbon award at the plant table. |
Judges were Ted and Marty Kellogg.
Eleven plants from 8 exhibitors were shown.