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Show Table April 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 April. Plants are named as presented with minor editing corrections. To view a larger image, click on the photograph.

First Place and tied for Members' Choice: Coelogyne South Carolina

Grower: Jane Camarota

This is a hybrid of Coel. Burfordiense by Coel. pandurata registered by Carter and Holmes in 1996. Four clones have won quality AOS awards.

Second Place: Den. nobile 'Rotunda'

Grower: Shirley Hoffman

A very nicely bloomed plant of this Dendrobium species which is often difficult to grow well in our area. Dendrobium nobile is native to the area Himalaya to S. China and Indo-China. It was first described by Lindley in 1830. The plant is primarily grown to be a showy specimen - 26 of the 31 AOS awards to this spercies have been for culture.

Third Place: Leptotes bicolor

Grower: Mary Anne Digrazia

A floriferous display of this small orchid. Leptotes bicolor is native to southern Brazil to Paraguay. Lindley described the species in 1833.

Species of the Month and Speakers Choice: Encyclia bractescens

Grower: Richard Amos

This well grown plant produced an attractive mound of folliage and flowers. Originally described as Epidendrum bractescens by Lindley in 1840, it was transferred to Encyclia in 1952. It grows from Southern Mexico to Guatemala.

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Members' Choice (tie): Ctna. Maui Maid

Grower: Chris Simco

The clone exhibited was a seedling of a cross of two Ctna. Maui Maid clones - 'Fringe' and 'Ivory Dolls.'

33 plants from 22 exhibitors were shown.

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