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Epi News San Diego Epiphyllum Society, Inc Epi News San Diego Epiphyllum Society, Inc. November 2014 Volume 39 November, 2014 SDES Epi News Page 2 President’s Corner: We are finally getting some seasonal all of you who have prints or can make prints of weather around here after one of the your wonderful epiphyllum photos to bring them hottest summers in memory (in my to the meeting for judging. It’s fun and the more memory, anyway). I don’t know people we get involved, the more fun it will be! about you, but I am welcoming Fall to no end. Also at the November meeting, our membership The cooler half of the year has arrived and that will be voting on the new slate of SDES officers makes for much more pleasant work parties at the for the year 2015 as published in this issue on Safari Park. If the heat has been keeping you page 3. away, now is your chance to participate in this fun SDES activity. Coming up in December will be, of course, our annual Installation Banquet where we will enjoy We are still moving forward with our change a great meal, relax, have a good time and install over to an e-mail version of our newsletter, the the SDES officers for 2015. Mildred Mikas has Epi News. And we are still looking at cutting gone all out once again to organize a fantastic over after the first of the coming year. We are dinner and festivities. Please contact Mildred to planning to do some test e-mailing of the let her know you would like to attend. November and December editions as well. Happy epi growing! At this month’s General Meeting, we will hold our annual Photo Contest. I encourage any and Ron Pre-Meeting Workshop: --Velma Crain At last month’s pre-meeting work shop, we November’s workshop topic was still being discussed how to care for epies during the fall and discussed as we went to press… winter months. Please join us in Room 104 at 7:00 pm on Wednesday, November 12th to see what Ron Crain will talk about!!!!! October Meeting Program: In October we enjoyed Don Crain’s photo- phyllum Society. Many thanks to Don for graphs of Epiphyllums, Roses and Orchids. creating and presenting this program for us! These included photos taken at the Flower Thanks also to Ron Crain for assisting with Shows of our sister societies, the Epiphyllum the presentation. Society of America and the South Bay Epi- November Meeting Program: For our November program we have Master plants and habitat needed to encourage birds Gardener Marcia Van Loy with a discussion and butterflies and how they benefit us. Please on how to encourage birds and butterflies in join us in Room 101 on Wednesday, November our gardens. She will inform us on the types of 12th at 7:30 pm!! November, 2014 SDES Epi News Page 3 Election at this month’s meeting: Slate of Officers for 2015 President: Janice Wakefield Directors: 1st VP (Programs): Victoria Chapman Nominated for a 2-year term: 2nd VP (Mother’s Day Oliver LaPuebla Show Coordinator): Laura Johnson Mildred Mikas Recording Secretary: Cindy Decker To serve the 2nd year of their 2-year term: Corresponding Secretary: Beth Jackson Jerry Moreau Membership Secretary: Humberto Contreras Bill Greene Treasurer: Tim Paule Marie Dempewolf Annual Photo Contest this month! Don’t forget to bring your favorite Epi Photo(s) to the November meeting! Criteria will be the same as in years past: Any size photo can be entered Photos should be matted (not framed), but don’t let that preclude you from entering your best shot. Bring it anyway! Please write your name on the back (with the name, if known, of the epi hybrid in the photo) There will be a “People’s Choice” winner as well as the judges’ choices. Winning photos will be featured on the covers of Epi News Calendar of Events Holiday Marketplace is our next Sales Event --Cindy Decker Nov 10 Holiday Marketplace Nov 12 General Meeting Our next sales event will be the Nov 15 Safari Park Work Party HOLIDAY MARKETPLACE on Nov 10, 2014. Nov 29 Safari Park Work Party This event is sponsored by The San Diego Horticul- tural Society and is being held at the Surfside Race Nov TBA Board Meeting Place at the Del Mar Fairgrounds from 6-9:00pm. Dec 10 Holiday Installation This would be an interesting event for all to attend and Banquet shop for the upcoming holidays. There will be lots of interesting booths with Garden craft related items and plants. We did this last year and enjoyed the experi- ence and added some to our bank account. November, 2014 SDES Epi News Page 4 Safari Park Epi Display House --Jerry Moreau We had some productive work parties this past Mildred Mikas, Jerry Moreau, Tim Paule, Fred month. There were only a couple of blooms but Savage, Linda Sinkovic, and Janice Wakefield. the E. oxypetalum was getting ready to bloom Thank you all! Your help is invaluable. again. We continue to repot, weed, fertilize, keeping the plants looking good and continued to The next work parties will be alphabetize the workhouse. At this time there is November 15th & 29th. no further news about the new display. Plans are still moving along. If you are interested in joining the fun and learn- ing a lot about epis in the process, come and I would like to welcome a new volunteer, Linda volunteer at the Park. Information on how to sign Sinkovic. It’s great to have some new and enthu- up can be found on the website siastic help. She will be focusing on the epiphytic www.SanDiegoEpi.org - Click on the Safari Park species in the collection. Linda will be a great tab or contact Jerry at [email protected] . addition to the team. Helping out this month were Sandra Chapin, Ron & Velma Crain, Gina Contreras, Marie Dempewolf, Michele Finchum, Bill Greene, Bob Holzinger, Beth Jackson, Laurie Lasslo, Jerry & Betsy Markle, Gerry & Now is the Time Watch weather reports winds. Plants in hanging debris out. Don’t let pots for freezing tempera- pots are subject to broken on benches sit in puddles tures. In areas that freeze, branches as they bump into of water. plants can be protected for other pots or are knocked Continue to keep an eye a short period with to the ground. out for snails and slugs. newspaper, but plastic Withhold fertilizers as Keep plants and sheeting will provide more plants become semi- containers free of debris. durable protection. dormant. Monitor plants for root If epis are subjected to Avoid over-watering. fungus diseases. hail, rinse the ice off Epis require less watering Discoloration of branches immediately. Prolonged during the cool, rainy just above the soil level contact with ice can season. may indicate problems damage the plants more Winter rains are good for below the soil. than the impact of the hail epis. Collect rainwater in Check fruit for ripeness. itself. opaque containers and Protect against strong cover containers to keep November, 2014 SDES Epi News Page 4 From our Librarian: Get Your Facts First -- Linda Sinkovic “Get your facts first, then you can anguliger plants. distort them as much as you Width of the flower please…” -Mark Twain is between 2.7 inches So let's talk about “Ric Rac Cactus”. “Ric and 5.9 inches. In Rac Cactus” is one of those names used for my San Diego garden, it different varieties of plants, much like “Queen of grows in the shadier parts of the Night”. 1 This name comes from the deeply the shade house and usually lobed branches, the lobes varying from angular to blooms in November. In the rounded – often on the same plant. Because the wild E. anguliger is found in some southwestern Mexican lobes can vary, it's a tricky proposition to identify a 4 particular plant unless it's flowering. states. There are three species commonly referred to as “Ric Rac Cactus”: Epiphyllum anguliger, Selenicereus anthonyanus and Weberocereus imitans. To make things more interesting, there are hybrids with E. anguliger 2 or S. anthonyanus 3 parentage, also with deeply lobed branches. But today we'll just talk about the species and look at E. anguliger branch some pictures. E anguliger with small Sadly I don't have pictures of all the flowers. flower Instead I’ve included some photos of these various species (and one hybrid) which show the branch shape. I've rotated all the photos to the same orientation and blurred the background so you can see the branch shape. As you can see, it's not too easy to determine the species just by looking at the branches. Selenicereus anthonyanus Epiphyllum 5 anguliger also occurs in Mexico. The flowers have purple back has fragrant petals and yellow-white inner white flowers petals. Flower width is 4 to with back 5.9 inches. The flower shape petals ranging is similar to other Selenicer- from yellow to eus species. It is also fragrant gold to tan. although to me it smelled of Flower size can lemon pepper. This plant gets be variable a bit more sun than most of between (Continued on page 6) different E. November, 2014 SDES Epi News Page 6 Features of Species and the Like..(Continued from page 5) Countdown to the the other epiphytic Annual cactus and when it does deign to bloom for me, Installation Banquet it blooms in July. Wednesday, My Weberocereus December 10 imitans hasn't flowered yet as it is a new acquisition for me.
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