NOVEMBER 2019
Wednesday, November 13th., 2019 PROGRAMS Regular Meeting at 7:30 p.m. PENNY SALE & Holy Rosary Church Hall 35 Queen Street North DIVIDING A BULBOPHYLLUM Thorold DEMO
EXECUTIVE 2019-2020
President ...... Rick Rempel ...... 905-734-1588 Vice President ...... Nicole Therrien ...... 905-935-9345 Secretary ...... Isabel Streeter ...... 905-682-7792 Treasurer ...... Colin Burns ...... 905-684-9705 Newsletter Editor ...... Lydia Stewart ...... 905-354-4110 Membership ...... Joanne Madsen ...... 905-685-7478 Librarian ...... Michele Horvat ...... 905-356-2295 Publicity ...... Cheryl Maurice ...... 905-734-1257 Show Table ...... Michele Horvat ...... 905-356-2295 Hospitality ...... Barbara Berry ...... 905-227-4307 Program Co-Ordinator ...... Ted Kretz ...... 905-735-8381 AOS/COC Rep ...... Charlene Kretz ...... 905-735-8381
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Class 1 Cattleya Alliance Slc. Angel’s Dream x Sc. Beaufort Lune Rousse Pete Van Loon 1st.
Class 2 Paphiopedilum Phragmipedium Sorcerer’s Apprentice Ted & Charlene Kretz 1st. Phragmipedium Praying Mantis Pete Van Loon 2nd.
Class 3 Phalaenopsis Phal. ??? Alice Harris 1st.
Class 4 Oncidium Alliance **** Miltassia Kauai’s Choice Ted & Charlene Kretz 1st.
Class 7 All Others Polystachya galeata Michele Horvat 1st. Restrepia antennifera Charlene & Ted Kretz 2nd. Masdevallia Redwing x Copperwine Charlene & Ted Kretz 3rd.
Class 9 Vanda Alliance Aerangis kirkii Ted & Charlene Kretz 1st.
*****PLANT OF THE MONTH BULLETIN BOARD payable by the end of December. COOS Show Please see Joanne Madsen at the Just a couple of corrections to the meeting or send your payment to her awards received at the Coos Orchid address: Show. Phil Hinman received “Best Joanne Madsen Vandaceous” for his Vanda 37 Grantham Avenue, South Patcharee Delight “Royal Blue” and St. Catharines, ON Ted and Charlene Kretz received L2P 3B3 “Best Phalaenopsis” for their Phalaenopsis Warleitt “White Pearl”. If you pay by November 30, your Sorry for the error!! name will go into a draw for a prize. The name of the winner will be drawn Meeting at the Christmas Party. Okay everyone, get ready for our Penny Sale for our November Hospitality meeting. Please bring all your This is a reminder to Charlene & Ted wonderful donations for the sale. It Kretz that they are signed up to bring should be an enjoyable evening. the goodies for coffee. Thanks Ted Also, Ted will be dividing a large and Charlene!! Bulbophyllum lobbii and he will give Also Isabel would like to let the members a piece of this plant as long membership know that there will be a as they are willing to do their own sign-up sheet for the Hospitality potting of it. Ted will be supplying donations for 2020. If possible, the moss for potting, but he will only please put your name on the list. have a few pots, so please bring a Thank you. shallow pot if you have one..... around a 3-1/2 inch. Cloud’s Open House Cloud’s is open this month for a Christmas Party nursery sales week-end. The dates If you haven’t already, the sign-up are Saturday and Sunday, November sheet for our annual pot luck 23 & 24, 11 am. to 4 pm. The Christmas Party will be available at workshop will be Saturday only - the November meeting. The date is Cattleyas @ noon December 11th. and the festivities will start at 6:30 p.m. Please bring your own plates and cutlery. The turkey will be supplied by the Society. It is a non-alcoholic party. We also like to have a gift table for the Christmas party, so if anyone has something the would like to donate for a gift, please feel free to do so. Thank you.
Membership This is another reminder that membership dues of $20.00 are Caladenia
Caladenia, commonly known as spider orchids, is a genus of 350 species of plants in the orchid family, Orchidaceae. Spider orchids are terrestrial herbs with a single hairy leaf and a hairy stem. The labellum is fringed or toothed in most species and there are small projections called calli on the labellum. The flowers have adaptations to attract particular species of insects for pollination. The genus is divided into three groups on the basis of flower shape, broadly, spider orchids, zebra orchids and cowslip orchids, although other common names are often used. Although they occur in other countries, most are Australian and 136 species occur in Western Australia, making it the most species-rich orchid genus in that state.
Orchids in the genus Caladenia are terrestrial, perennial, deciduous, sympodial herbs with a few inconspicuous, fine roots and a tuber partly surrounded by a fibrous sheath. The tuber produces two "droppers" which become daughter tubers in the following year. There is a single hairy convolute leaf at the base of the plant. Most species have an enlarged cell at the base of each hair. The leaf may be medium-sized to large, fleshy or leathery, lance-shaped to oblong, but is always simple, lacking lobes and serrations.
The genus name (Caladenia) is derived from the Ancient Greek words kalos meaning "beautiful" and aden meaning "a gland" referring to the colourful labellum. Caladenia orchids are informally grouped into those with long narrow sepals and petals, such as the white spider orchid (C. longicauda) and the clubbed spider orchid (C. longiclavata), those with short sepals and petals which tend to hang near the stem, such as the zebra orchid (C. cairnsiana) C. cairnsiana and dwarf zebra orchid (C. pachychila)
C. pachychila
and a third group with short, spreading sepals and petals such as the cowslip orchid (C. flava)
and fan orchid (C. nana).
C. nana
C. flava
Most caladenias are endemic to Australia. Eleven species, ten of which are endemic, occur in New Zealand with one also occurring in Australia. Caladenia catenata and C. carnea occur in New Caledonia, with the latter also found in Indonesia. There are about 136 species endemic to the south-west of Western Australia, 114 of which have been formally described and a further 18 hybrids which have been described and named. In Western Australia, caladenias are found in the south-west from north of Kalbarri on the west coast to the Nuytsland Nature Reserve on the coast of the Great Australian Bight. Their habitats range from cool, moist Karri forest, to swamplands near the coast and to almost arid mallee woodland.
Caladenia have generally proven difficult to maintain and cultivate artificially Some enthusiasts have had limited success by cultivating the symbiotic fungus that the orchid requires and by careful use of fertiliser to keep the fungus and orchid in balance.