Grower: Sherman Shonk

Again this month, the Member’s choice award goes to a Dendrobium of uncertain origin. Sherm indicated it was a rescued small plant just three years ago. Nice growing Sherm.

Grower: Carol Wood

This ‘table top’ Dendrobium presented a substantial mass of flowers and many more buds to come. The plant is named as presented, but it is not listed as a registered hybrid. Vendors of plants like this often invent a name for marketing purposes, but the specific parentage may be unknown.

Grower: Joe Crook

A young plant with just two flowers on a species that can produce up to ten flowers. The rich, uniform color and the well-held lip were outstanding attributes of this plant. Note that the lip has no side lobes wraping the column, a characteristic which is a distinquishing feature of the speices.

Cycnoches Jean E. Monnier. This seedling, blooming for the first time, had a very intersting spotted color pattern and spotting that extended to the lip. Exhibited by Andrea May.

Aeranthes grandiflora? This plant was entered without a name and is likely to be the species listed. It had several flowers on long, thing infloresences. Exhibited by Nichole Dwyn.

Grower: Richard Amos

This hybrid of Bulbophyllum lobbii by B. phalaenopsis was registered in 2003. Richard had shown this plant before and it was then hard to see the influence of the B. phalaenopsis parent in the young seedling. At this blooming the plant had larger growths and multi-flowered inflorescences, characteristics of the B. phalaenopsis parent.

Grower: Bill Timm

A magnificancely grown plant of this hybird with one infloresence in full bloom, another inflorescence about to bloom and two immature inflorescences. It is a cross of Clowesia russelliana by Catasetum expansum. The plant was taken to judging in Miami four days after our meeting where it was awarded an AM/AOS with a score of 87 points. Congratulations Bill!

Grower: Bill Timm

Four flowers graced this small growing Bulbophyllum. The shape of the orchid, like a small boot (it was once named Cirropetalum bootanoides), made it a favorite with members.

Grower: Carol Wood

Eleven inflorsences, with an over 100 flowers and a similar number of buds, made this a favorite of members. The hybrid is a combination Rodriguezia lanceolata, Leochilus oncidioides, and Oncidium sarcodes. The plant exhibited showed a red-orange color. The award description describes the color as blood red. The color of the exhibited plant was influenced by the warm Florida temperatures.