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Amelian Ordtki ~ DAS5A OI.t!nruWMd ~ ~ ScrwIoooAwwd An Affiliate of the American Orchid Society FORT LAUDERDALE ORCHID SOCIETY August, 2010 th Program for August 9 Classifi cation and more from Wikimedia photo credit. Eric Fang Brassavola nodosa Program chair All en Cogar had not gotten a finn wlVw.orchid'i.com commitment from his i'ntended August speaker at the kid. Plantae time the newsletter needed to get to the printer. No p. Angiosper m problem, our wonderful website wi ll have the news, c. Monocot Yo u can bet, based on our great Ju ly program, that the o. Asparagaies wi ll be one to attend. f. Orchidacea sub f. Epidendoideae On Classification tribe Epidendreae sub trihe Laeliinac Use this pneumonic to remember basic classificati on: Alliance- Cattleya "Kathy poured/dumped coffee on father's grey suit" g. lJrassavo/a Kathy = kingdom s. not/osa poured/dumped = phylum fo r animals, r.; division tor plants B. nodosa was brought to Holl and in 1698 from the coffee = class Caribbean is land, Curacae. Wikimedia listed these on = ord er ve ry outstanding Brassavola hybrids: fa ther's = family grey suit = genus and species. B. Little Stars (B. nodosa x B. sublilofolia) Man 's classification is: Animal kingdom, Chordate phvlum (embryonic gill slits and notochord), mammal Rhynchovola David Sanders (B. cucullata x class (hai r and mi lk), primate order (finger nails, not RhYllchovola digbyana) hoofs or claws), hominidae family (separates liS from apes), homo genus (cave and modem man) and sapiens Be. Yell ow Bird (Bc. Richard Muell er x B. nodosa) species ( modern man). Homo sapiens is our scientifi c name as Brassavola nodosa is the name of our favorite Bc. Richard Mue ll er (B. 110dosa xc. (Laelia) milleri) orchi d according to an AOS members survey. Because taxonomists are so eager to place and replace orchids into slots everything on this side of Ihe Species Orchid Census page may be history. These endings are what I believe 10 be current beJdnning after f amily: New Guiana may have the most species per square famil y - Orcbidacea mile so to speak. This census is mostly abo ut subfamily- look for -oideae endings continents. The Southern Hemisphere is the home fo r tribe- ending in -eae the majority of orchids. South America is the home to subtribe- ending in -inea the most species by fa r. Africa comes in second, and Qenus and sP,ecies. Australia trails at half the number known to Africa. Both Africa and Austral ia have vast areas that are too Help Orchids Beat Summer Heat dry to support the symbiotic fungi that orchids require. One more time Flori da has more species orchids than Until the heat breaks sllray your orchids once a month any state in the United States. No surprise, we live in with a solution of 1 teaspoon of Epsom Salts (MgS0 4) fungi heaven, jus! look a! the leather shoes in the back to a gallon of water. It helps with photosynthesis. ofy our closetl Hamilton, R. (compiler) 1988 The New Orchid Doctor, Hamilton Pub. Cannda. P. 58 Review Julv lZh Program A Great Night With Ruben Ruben's favorites continued: * Ene. rufa was green and smells great. Ruben likes it Ruben began his interesting program by telling us as a landscape plant and it can adapt to growing in full how to polJinate an orchid flower. The quick version is sun. A cross with Lc. Gold Digger was a 'wow/ahhh' \ to remove the anther cap which contains pollinia (sacs orchid. of pollen) and to then apply even a quarter of one *Enc. allissima blooms from November to January and pollinium to the stigmoid surface. (Once upon a time may have 10-12 feet long bloom spikes. One of its 'they' sold a portion of a pollinium from a special plant pretty hybrids is Yam. Midnight Magenta. for as much as $100.) The presence of the pollinium *Enc. tampensis in Florida is the result of a 'hybrid stimulates ovules to form. The formation takes 120 swarm' . Originally there were 3 species that days which is the time it takes for the pollen tubes to intermixed into our native. Bepi. Gordon Vickers was reach the ovules and then fertilize them. It takes 6 a cross with B. nodosa that was appealing. more months for the pod to develop, and if you have * Cattleya amethystogiossa, as other rainforest species, the equipment to put it into a sterile flask of medium needs a great deal of water during its active growth you would soak the seed pod in Clorox for 30 minutes, period and needs much less water after that. and open the pod in the flask and tease out its contents. * C. ehoeoensis, *C dowiana, *C. mendelii were also At the end of 4 months the baby plants, and there shown on Ruben's favorite list and they also need may be up to a million of them, are green and growing rainforest culture. and stacked one on top of another. Nutrients from the C. trianaei is probably 3 different species according agar and transferred up the stack from plant to plant. * to Ruben, and is also a favorite At this point the babies are moved and thinned into *Sehom. tibieinis which is likely to be separated into more species. (Of other flasks. After another 4 months they are again course the genus has already been changed.) thinned and moved into new fmal flasks. At this point 18-24 months have elapsed since the cross was made. * Paraphalaenipis, *Tolumnia, and *Psyehilis were Ruben keeps his flasks in normal light and at ambient genera with favorite species. Psychillis maeeonnelliae outside temperatures. reblooms on old spikes and is 'never out of bloom.' Next he removes the plants from the flask into a tray * The ghost orchid species from Cuba is easier to grow of charcoal, tree fern, and aHflor, he sprays the tray and than our different Po/y"hiza species. its plants with 1 teaspoon of pool algicide, which is the Ruben Sauleda was a compelling and informative same as more expensive physan-20, to a gallon of s eaker. We were ve luc to have him with us. D.H. water. He uses a looped wire to pull the plants from the flask and he just lays them on their sides in the tray. July Ribbon Judging Results They will upright when they begin to grow again. Seedlings will languish for a while in the tray while , Vicki Hallock lculture! C. forbesii ' they switch from photo-respiration which they have 0 Cecelia Chang !bluel C. Hawaiian Passion : been doing ~ they got energy from the nutrient agar, to AI . Randall Clyde !blue! Ctsm. imperiale x Ctsm. Thinger photosynthesIs. He sprays the seedling tray a week Dinger later with Diathane M-45 at 3 tablespoons per gallon of , Joan Conners !bluel Asco. Emly water. He sprays the young plants again and again as Chris Crepage !bluel Dips. pulcherrima 'Snow Queen' x they grow to keep new surfaces able to resist Phal equestris var. alba, Otara Hidden Gold pathogens. Larger plants are moved into individual Dr. Norma Jeane Flack !bluel Tol. Genting Volcano, pots as they grow so that their smaller siblings will Lc. Edgard Vanbelle x (c. intemedia x Blc. Magic have growing space. It will probably be at least 3 years Meadow 'Green Genius'), Bc. Ann Hamilton for the out-of-flask plants to bloom. Tom Kulogowski !bluel Ctsm callosum Tin Ly !bluel Schom. brysiana .The secon~ ~art of Ruben's program was a power Tony Millet Ired! L. A1aorii x Le. Schilleriana pomt tour of hIS favorite plants'. He claimed to have Eugenia Nezvadovitz !blue! Zygo Arthur Elle 'Tombstone' 56,000 of them. Following are names and brief notes Dasha Urosevic Ired! B. nodosa on most of the ones we saw: * Encyelia phonicea headed the list and w~ saw· The July Refreshments Were Tasty, several hybrids. With Ene. alala it made Enc. Orchid Jungle and there were some hybrids with Cattleyas and Thank Our Providers: Shomo Ihompsoniana. *Ene. eordigera has 3 color forms and an alba. Vicki Hallock, Nora Dyke, Paul Gartner, Chris Crepage, Carrie Ackerman, Gary Pierce, Joan Connors, (Continued next column.) Petra Thomas, Vicki Trank, Betty Runde, Grace (2~), Vicino, Lisa Davis, Zoe Be'ar, and Sarah Mitchell Book Memorials for Judy Crowder Chemical Killers for Bugs and people? Donations for Judy Crowder have added 3 books to Of course you know about nerve damage and even our society library. Judy was a member of the society death in people who handle chemicals over lime. until her death last year, and she was a good grower Sometimes that time is not a/l that long. These are that we can remember as we read. points 10 consider before you mix or use any orchid Two articles on this page from Orchid Species chemical spray: Culture will introduce you to this volume which describes background and culture in depth for 87 1. Wear protective clothing (Cover your skin from chin genera including these that most of us own: Aspasia, to toe tips.), goggles, a respirator, and gloves while Brassia, Cochlioda, /onopsis, Miltonia, Oncidium, diluting and mixing chemicals. 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  • November 1992 Newsletter

    November 1992 Newsletter

    Odontoglossum Alliance shortened cross to flower cycle. He illustrated Odontoglossum his techniques with excellent visual material including many suggestions for proceeding from Alliance Meeting the flask through community pot to flowering. Bob has promised to write up his talk to be printed in a future newsletter. a Success The John Day scrapbooks were a monumental The Odontoglossum Alliance held its annual achievement produced in the period of mid to late meeting in conjunction with the Eastern Orchid ISOO’s. Mr. Michael Tibbs of Stonehurst Congress in Boston, Massachusetts on 23 Nurseries had completed a study of these books October. Bob Dugger, Program Chairman, now located at Kew Gardens. Michael extracted a introduced each of the four speakers. Allan large amount of interesting material on Moon, Curator, Eric Young Orchid Foundation odontoglossums produced by Day. Michael’s described their efforts to create albino illustrations and talk was interesting and odontoglossums. This work had started under informative. Day produced colored flowers, in Mr. Charlesworth, but had lain in neglect water color with great detail, but often left the following his death in 1920. The Foundation had rest of the plant vaguely sketched. Day also pursued a course of producing albino flowers included letters, comments, and clippings from using the original Charlesworth progress and gardeners publications. combining it with recent chromosome count The meeting was attended by about 150 people work of Don Wimber producing amazing and who where very enthusiastic about the high beautiful results. Allan showed slides of large quality of the program. Following the lecture pure white odontoglossums, white with yeUow series, the Alliance held an auction of fine markings, and clear yellows.