Grower: Monroe Kokin

Whether your preference is to call this hybird of Bulb. (Cirr.) makoyanum x Bulb. (Cirr.) amesianum this well-grown and well-flowered plant captured three awards at the show table. The cross was registered in 1969 and has been awarded twice for culture – the specimen exhibited easily reached the standard of those awards. It had over 70 inflorescenses and many more just beginning to appear.

The choice of the genus name depends on which authority one consults. According to the Monocot Project Checklist by Kew, all plants horticulturally known as Cirrhopetalums are Bulblophyllums, and theerfore each parent is a Bulbophyllum species. However, the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), which maintains the records of orchid hybrids, currently considers this hybrid a Cirrhopetalum. Since the American Orchid Society follows the RHS for naming hybrids, this is technically a Cirrhopetalum. Most growers accept either genus name on this hybrid.

Growers: Chris Simco

Six large flowers graced the one inflorescense of this Cattleya hybrid. It is a cross of C. bicolor ‘Bronze Beauty’ AM/AOS x Blc. Owen Holmes ‘Mendenhall’ AM/AOS, registered in 2005. Its intense color and bright lip drew the judges attention.

Growers: Ted and Marty Kellogg

A small growing plant, less than 15 cm. tall, carried two coerulea flowers with a natural spread of 9 cm. The plant is several years old and the size of the plant appears to be the mature plant size. The flowers are well-formed and well-held.

Growers: Ted and Marty Kellogg

While Ted believes he collected this plant many, many years ago in Ecuador, the only recorded occurance of the species is from Brazil. The identification was done by Carl Luer. The small flowers have an intense, dark red brown coloring. It seems to be thriving growing in Florida.

Grower: Venny and Roy Klinger

With an eye catching twenty-three flowers on four inflorescences, Roy’s plant finally won the first place award for the show table (it had earned the second palce award in 2003 and 2004). This showing doubled the number of inflorescences and flowers from when it was last shown. It is a hybrid of Lc. Kencolor x C. guttata.

Growers: Ted and Marty Kellogg

Four Psychopsis hybrids, all with Psy. papilio strongly in their background were shown as a group. The group included one infloresence with two flowers opening back to back and another with the flower in the process of opening. The intensity and form of the chestnut markings varied considerably. All of the hybrids originated from Carter and Holmes.

Growers: Lindalee Anderson (top or left) and Ted and Marty Kellogg

A plant of this clone was shown last July. At that time, the comment was “It also appears that this cross was never registered with RHS or won’t show on their database. A Google search shows several listiings for Lc. or C. Netrasiri Waxy ‘Jairug’ and some even show an AM award for the clone. If anyone knows the story behind this confusion please send me an email (tmk@uri.edu).”

This year we also had a clone of Lc. Loog Tone on the table – and the Netrasiri Waxy looked just like it. Maybe it is a case of name proliferation through meristemming…

Grower: Bill Timm

A warm growing Bulbophyllum species from the lowland evergreen forests of Vietnam. It has been known as a Cirropetalum and as Bulbophyllum bootanoides. The flowers are about 3 cm. long.

Grower: Bob Hague

Three large flat yellow flowers with a striking red lip drew the attention of the speaker. This clone was awarded in 1999 and is the result of a cross of Blc. Tassie Barbero by Blc. Toshie Aoki registered in 1990. The cross represents complex yellow Cattleya breeding with 18 species introduced over 8 generations in its background.

Grower: Bill Timm

This Brazilian species had 22 flowers on 7 inflorescences and created a display that impressed everyone. It was the first ‘triple’ ribbion winner in many years. The plant was entered as an ‘alba’ variety but was a very soft pink in color.

This species genus name has recently been accepted as a Sophronitis by Kew in its Monocot Checklist. While it was originally defined by Lindl. as Cattleya lobata in 1848, it was identifiedas Laelia lobata by Veitch in 1878. The change to Sophronitis was proposed in 2000 by Van den Berg and Chase, and there was yet another proposal in 2002 by Chiron and Castro to call it Hadrolaelia. While the name had been unchanged for over 120 years, the recent changes and proposed changes are the result of studies of its DNA.

Grower: Bill Timm

Brassia Rex is a hybrid of Brs. veruccosa by Brs. gireoudiana registered by Moir in 1964. It has been remade several times. The grex has received over 30 AOS awards, about one-quarter of them have been for culture.

Grower: Bill Timm

The name of this plant is Ctsm. Francis Nelson. That cross was registered as a hybrid of Ctsm. socco by Ctsm. fimbriatum and was registered in 1974. Today, Ctsm. trulla is considered a synonym of Ctsm. socco.

The exhibited plant had one inflorescence with over 20 waxy green flowers with burgundy markings.

Observent readers of ths page will note that Bill Timm’s plants won 1st, 2nd and 3rd place – Congratulations Bill.

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Grower: Ted and Marty Kellogg

Twenty-two flowers on eight inflorscences graced this plant. A seedling of a cross between clones ‘Margaret Ilgenfritz’ and ‘Orchidglade’ this plant was purchased in 2003 as an unbloomed seedling from Fender’s Orchids (I misspoke at the meeting when I said it was from another vendor). This blooming is slightly less floriferous than last year – probably time to repot/divide the plant.