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June 2003 Plant Table

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Show Table June 2003

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. The monthly speaker chooses the Speaker’s Choice and the VAOS members vote on the plant for Members’ Choice. The following section describes each of these awards for June 2003. To view a larger image, click on the photograph.

	First Place Award, Sobennikoffia robusta Grower: Orchids Etc. Shown with three flower spikes and a total of 28 flowers in perfect condition. The species is native to Madagascar and grows in a seasonally dry woodland next to shrubs. The species was originally described as Oeonia robusta by Schlecter in 1913, but he transferred it to his newly described genus, Sobennikoffia in 1925. Sobennikoffia is closely allied to the Angraecum but has a three lobbed lip.
	Second Place Award: Miltonia Red Tide x mem. Ida Seigel Grower: Mary Anne Digrazia Few Miltoniopsis plants make it to our show table because our climate is not condusive to growing these cool loving plants. This hybrid had three flowers.
	Third Place Award: Dendrobium Madame Vipa ‘Bangkok Green’ Grower: Jean Terrana A mass of blooms (11 spikes and over 100 flowers) impressed the judges. The flowers were a clear green with a solid reddish-purple lip. The cross was registered in 1985. The breeding is complex, with Den. phalanopsis in about 50% of the backround and six other species contributing the rest.
	Best Species Award and Members’ Choice: Grammatophyllum scriptum Grower:Monroe Kokin A ‘first blooming’ of a grammatophyllum species with 2 spikes and over ninety flowers. Estimated spike length about 6 feet. Several scriptum plants have been awarded and cultural awards often involve plants with over a thousand flowers and 20 or more spikes – Monroe, get ready for this to grow!
	Speaker’s Choice: Meiracyllium trinasutum Grower: George Walker A solid ‘ball’ of a plant, each leaf about two inches high. The small blossoms are about one-half inch in diameter.The plant was displayed on a small hanging stand. The species is native to Mexico and Guatemala.

Judges: Mary Anne Digrazia, Anna Sibille, Don Mitchell

48 plants from 21 exhibitors were shown.

April 2003 Plant Table

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Show Table April 2003

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. The monthly speaker chooses the Speaker’s Choice and the VAOS members vote on the plant for Members’ Choice. The following section describes each of these awards for April 2003. To view a larger image, click on the photograph.

	First Place Award, Members’ Choice and Speaker’s Choice: Lc. John Mossman Grower: Chris Simco A large cattleya plant with 27 flowers and 2 buds on 10 spikes. This cross was registered in 1966 and is fifty percent C. mossiae, other Cattleya species and just 3 percent Laelia tenebrosa. The success of this plant in three different levels of judging shows that well grown plants producing prolific flowering have strong appeal. The cross, John Mossman, does not have a “strong’ pedigree – none of its sister plants, nor its parents or their sisters were ever awarded.
	Second Place Award: Catasetum Black Jade Grower: Bill and Connie Timm A bright green catasetum flower. Two spikes with a total of 33 flowers. This is a cross of two species (russellianum x expansum) registered in 1991.
	Third Place Award: Dendrobium Green Lantern Grower: Ted and Marty Kellogg A young plant, purchased a little over a year ago from H&R in a two inch pot. Current flowering has 11 flowers on main stem and two flowers on older stem. Parents are Dawn Maree x curentum. Dawn Maree’s parents are formosum x cruentum, making Green Lantern 75% cruentem.
	Best Species Award: Jumellea arachnantha Grower: Bill and Connie Tim Bill and Connie received a CCM for the culture of this clone in 1991. The current plant had over sixty flowers in bloom.

Judges: Sue Fender, Bill Camp, Norm Weber

63 plants from 27 exhibitors were shown.

March 2003 Plant Table

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Show Table March 2003

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. The monthly speaker chooses the Speaker’s Choice and the VAOS members vote on the plant for Members’ Choice. The following section describes each of these awards for March 2003. To view a larger image, click on the photograph.

	First Place Award: Vanda Madame Rattana x V. Manuadee Grower: Katie Caldwell A very well grown plant with three spikes carrying 31 flowers, a fourth spike emerging. The photograph fails to display the intense color of the flowers.
	Second Place Award: Cymbidium Star ‘Beth’ Grower: Bunny Minnock A heavily flowered minature cymbidium. This cross was registered in 1969 by Gallup and Stribling.
	Third Place Award and Members’ Choice: Dendrobium Second Love ‘Tokimeki’ Grower: Richard Amos A multi-spike plant in full bloom. Members were attracted to the immense display of flowers, typical of its Den. nobile background. The cross was registered in 1989 and represents complex breeding reaching back 11 generations.
	Best Species Award: Cattleya violacea Grower: Richard Amos A seedling of this species with five flowers on three spikes. C. violacea was first described in 1838 and is found naturally in Venezula, Ecuador and Brazil. This plant is a species seedling hybridized by H&R. The species has received twenty AOS awards, including a FCC in 1983 and an AM in 2001.
	Speaker’s Choice Award: Rhychostylis gigantea Grower: Bill and Susan Fender Five spikes at peak bloom on a well culitavted plant. A good example of a dark red form of the species, which has been cultivated in a variety of color forms. The species has received 115 AOS awards, the most recent in 2001.

Judges: Bill Fender, Walter Perrin, Jeff Higel