Grower: Richard Amos

An amazing ball of attractive green growths with hundreds of small white flowers. This species which was first described by Lindley in 1836 is native to tropical West Africa. Richard says he has been growing the species for many years and this plant is one of the many divisions he has made.

Grower: Katie Caldwell

A beautifully grown plant with arching branched sprays carrying 45 flowers and 26 buds. This hybrid of Bro. Little London ‘Cutie’ x Ctna. Orglade’s Little Lover ‘Darkie’ was registered by Claude Hamilton in 1999 and has received two AOS awards to date.

Grower: Bill and Betsey Scevola

One huge flower (20 cm x 20 cm) flower with a frilled royal purple lip. This unregistered hybrid’s lineage is complex. Blc. California Girl includes a line of breeding about 150 years and seven generations; Blc. Winifred Singeo is from a breeding line of over 100 years and seven generations. The parents of this plant were registered in 1983 and 1994.

Grower: Katie Caldwell

Six flowers and fifteen buds graced this plant. The genera Hknsa( = Hawkinsara) is a combination of Broughtonia, Cattelya, Laelia, and Sophronitis. The grex Hknsa. Sogo Doll was registered in 1994; the clone ‘Little Angel’ was awarded a 78 point HCC/AOS at the Naples show in 2002.

Grower: Richard Amos

This is a cross of Angcm. magdalenae x Angcm. sesquipedale registered in 1984 by Lemforder. Wildcatt indicates that Lemforder registered 51 hybrids, fifty of them Phalenopsis crosses and and this one Angraecum cross. The exhibited plant had two large star shaped flowers in perfect condition. The flowers produced a strong, spicey-sweet scent.

Grower: Ed and Elaine Fox

Four flowers on two stems and 8 buds on other stems gave a hint of the floriferousness of this plant. The parents, Lc. Amber Glow (yellow with red lip) and C. Horace (light lavender-pink) are two well known Cattleyas. While they were registered in 1951 and 1938, the Lc. Lauren Oka cross wasn’t registered until 1991. No AOS awards have been given to this cross.

Grower: Richard Amos

One flower on this plant impressed the judges -the white sepals and petals contrasted with the blue-purple striations of the lip.

This represents a relatively new line of breeding, with almost all hybrids registered in the last ten years. The cross Cnths. falbelliformis x Cnths amazonica = Cnths Amazing was registered in 1997; the current backcross had was registered in June 2003 by Tsiku Taiwan Orchids.

Grower: Richard Amos

A delightful Cycnoches with three inflorescences, each with approximately thirty flowers. The lip is the white spidery shaped form in the flower, the column is extended downward with an upcurving hook shape. All the flower parts are spotted mahogany brown.

This speices was first described by Rolfe in Lindenia in 1891. It is native to both Ecuador and Peru.

Grower: Jane Camarota

This striking and attention getting flower, often called a splashed petal form, was the overwhelming choice of members.

The hybrid, first registered in 1992, is a cross of Lc. Irene Finney x C. Cherry Chip. C. Cherry Chip is a C. intermedia hybrid; the splash petal form of the flowers is from the use of C. intermedia v. acquinii in the breeding.

Grower: Don Mitchell

A well grown plant with three inflorescences of two flowers each. Sepals and petals were olive green and the flat lip was marked with deep magenta. The coloring on all flowers was consistent and non-fading.

The parents are Bc Binosa and Lc Brazilian Treasure and the cross was made in 1986.

Grower: Monroe Kokin.

This is a line bred form of C. bowringiana hybridized using the clones ‘Dr. Kopecky’ and ‘Splendens.’ Flowers were a uniform deep purple about 8 cm. across. The plant carried 32 flowers on 4 spikes.

The C. bowringiana species, first described in 1885, grows from Mexico to Honduras. Recently Robert L. Dressler and Wesley E. Higgins have proposed Guarianthe as the new generic name for the “Cattleya” skinneri complex including C. aurantiaca, bowringiana, patinii and skinneri.

Den. Emma White

Grower: Ed and Elaine Fox.

Just breaking into bloom was this large plant of Den. EmmaWhite with nine inflorescenses carrying 38 flowers and 70 buds.

There is confusion regarding the name of this hybrid. Den. Emma White is in the trade, but the name was never registered with RHS. There also exists in the trade a Den. Emma Belle ‘White” which looks very much like the plant shown at our meeting. A final bit of confusion exists in that Den. Emma is registered, but it is from very different types of Dendrobium parents.

C. labiata ‘Sherwood Forest’

Grower: Diane Arendall

Two inflorescenses with five flowers each. Flowers natural spread was 13.5 cm. C. labiata was first described in 1821as Epidendrum labiata and is representative of the large Cattleya flowers which are often referred to as the ‘labiata type cattleya.’ The ‘Sherwood Forest’ clone was awarded in Florida in 1991 with a total of 84 points.

Cym Nancy’s Treasure ‘Precious’

Grower: Ted and Marty Kellogg

Six flowers on one inflorescense. The plant was one of six purchased from Everglades Orchids in 2001 as a ‘warmer’ growing Cymbidium. It is the first of those plants to bloom; it grows on a lanai with no special care.

Cym. Nancy’s Treasure was registered in 1996 by Everglades Orchids and is a cross of Cym. parishii by Cym. Mizhu Okada.