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Southern California Orchid Species Society Southern California Orchid Species Society www.socalorchidspecies.com Officers Meeting is 2nd Sunday of each month, at 2 PM Volume 34, Issue 1 President Barbara Olson Placentia Library January 2011 [email protected] 411 E. Chapman Ave, Placentia Vice President Darrell Lovell [email protected] Society Secretary Doug Adams January 9, 2011 Membership Secretary Peter Lin Edie Gulrich [email protected] The Three A’s of the Orchid World: Treasurer Angraecum, Aerangis, and Aeranthes Susan Scheffler [email protected] Peter T. Lin will be presenting a talk on: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ minicatt/collections/ Directors The 3 A’s of the Orchid World: An- 2013 graecum, Aerangis and Aeranthes. This Due to limited growing space, Peter Phyllis Adams likes to specialize in miniature or- Tim Roby fast paced PowerPoint presentation will showcase 3 of the main genera in the chids, both species and hybrids, 2012 and has received numerous AOS Marshall Lai Angraecoid family of Orchids, as well as Erika Jelovsek some of the lesser genera. Along with awards. His other interests in or- 2011 the species, we’ll also take a look at chids include Dendrobiums, An- Joy Keyser some of the beautiful hybrids that have graecoids, and Neofinetias. He Jan Hennessey been made over the years. maintains a collection of a thou- ——- sand or more orchids at his home Peter started growing orchids over 25 AOS Representative in Southern California in 3 small years ago, but then stopped due to Denise Claycomb greenhouses, as well as in the [email protected] school and starting a career. It wasn't house under fluorescent lights. Orchid Digest Representative until about 7 years ago that the orchid Vicki Ryan "bug" came back and he is now heavily (626)330-8122 involved once again. He is an Refreshments Coordinator accredited judge with the Joy Keyser American Orchid Society and a Raffle Coordinaor hybridizer of mini-catts. He Phyllis Adams enjoys meeting with other or- Newsletter chid enthusiasts, and can of- Roberta Fox ten be found at various orchid [email protected] shows and societies around (714)435-8015 the country. He also has hun- Newsletter deadline is the 25th of dreds of photos of his orchids the month prior to the month of that he maintains on Flickr. issue. You can view them by typing this address into the internet: Peter Lin Angraecum magdelenae Page 2 Speaker’s Choice give an idea of the relative size Pleurothallis alata, grown in a 1 inch pot by Peter of plant and Lin, was selected by December speaker Fred flowers, but Clarke. This warm-growing species is native pri- also to serve as marily to Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and a ―focus target‖. Costa Rica, at altitudes from about 600 ft (180 If one gets it m) to 4500 ft (1380 m). The inflorescences are about 1 inch, the flowers about ¼ inch. A given right, the photo inflorescence can produce several flowers succes- shows much sively, so should not be cut as long as it is green. more detail Pleurothallis is a very large genus, and has been than most of divided into multiple subgenera. This species is in those of us over subgenus Specklinia. The Kew Monocot Checklist the age of 40 <http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/home.do> (the can see when ―ultimate authority‖ on taxonomic nomenclature for all Monocotyledon plant families ) lists it as looking at the plant. Specklinia alata. These are beautiful little flowers, with Editor’s note: This tiny plant was a challenge to deep burgundy photograph, especially under the less-than-ideal spots, and yellow conditions available. I did get the best results tips on the sepals. with flash (which necessitated backing a bit far- (If you are looking at ther than I would have liked from the plant) Fo- this on paper in cus (with an auto-focus camera) on very small monochrome, it is flowers and plants is always difficult because the better on the web, in camera tends to try to focus on the background color!) (though I find that I still have better luck with auto -focus than trying to do it manually, using the smallest spot-focus setting). Putting the label into the picture served two purposes – one, to Pleurothallis alata, showing multiple blooms on inflorescence From the Members Corner Thanks to Jorge Molina, Anne Line Anderson and Wilma Wilson (she came in late) for joining us Sun- day12/12. Please come back again, we'd love to see you. It's dues time, folks; please pay as early as possible so I can get the roster out in a reasonably short time. Thanks. Edie Gulrich, Membership Secretary Peter Lin Eurychone rothschildiana Page 3 President’s Message Happy New Year, may it be suc- supports our purpose, thank you Ed. tify it from others in the collection in- cessful and rich in surprises grow- If you haven't read our purpose go to cluding plants that have no name. ing your orchids. We have been the pink roster book it is in there and given a great gift in the many please read it. A simple way is to build a 4 or 5 digit inches of rain we have received. code where the first two digits repre- Washing out the salts is wonderful While reading an issue of "Orchids" sent the year that it was purchased or for your plants! the AOS magazine of June 2003, acquired and the last two digits repre- there is an article written by Ken sent the sequence in that year you We had a really fun and exciting Stump, very interesting, discussing acquired them. The 4 or 5 digits will meeting last month! Fred Clarke "Our Orchid Collection Records", depend on whether your annual or- brought in a black orchid and did keeping records on the plants in our chid purchases are more than 100 himself proud, his talk was excel- collection. There are four headings plants, for example 98026 could rep- lent, the food was great and lots that he uses: A numbering system; resent the 26th plant acquired in of it. The black orchid was on the Spelling counts; Plant performance; 1998 similarly 03101 could be used silent auction table. It was really Storing data. All of this can be on a for the 101st plant acquired in an exciting exchange 'til it finally tag or in a log either in a notebook or 2003.But log all this info either in a was settled as the time ran out on the computer so you can track log or in a data base on the computer. and Edie Gulrich walked away with what is going on with the orchids and Spelling should be correct, you can it. She says it has a very interest- the importance of doing it even if it is add plant performance, be sure your ing fragrance, it smells like freshly a daunting task. If you haven't tags are up to date and can be read. chopped wood and very nice in started before start NOW!!! Don't let If you need more information just call the early morning. the new plants go out to the green- me. house or yard before writing the Looking forward to seeing you all. As The installation went well and was names of each plant plus where you always bring a friend. Also adding to done by Ed Wise and he encour- acquired them, and keep an extra list that, to bring goodies if you can. aged us that we are on the right with you so you don't duplicate track to continue with the Orchid unless you want to for extras(?) The Barbara Olson, President Conservation Alliance which is our numbering system also helps to iden- Editor’s Potting Bench Barbara’s suggestion to develop a system for organiz- information on the species within the genus. For infor- ing one’s orchid collection is ―Right on!‖. There are a mation about the Dendrochilum species, check out lot of ways to approach the issue, but all begin with a http://www.dendrochilum.com unique identifier for every plant. I would be happy to work with anybody who wants to set up a system. If Those who came to my house last May (the Mother’s Day you don’t ―do computers‖ a file box can be quite func- meeting) may recall the Cyrtochilum falcipetalum with tional. But if you do it on a computer, there are some spikes that were already about 5’ long. By mid-June, they additional things you can do – such as link digital pho- were up to the shadecloth. While I was on vacation for tos to the plant record. (I would be happy to show you two weeks, something caused the longer of the two how it can be done in Excel or MS Word). If you own spikes to break (maybe a bird or cat?) but the other one Orchidwiz, you already have an excellent database for kept on growing . When it hit the shadecloth, it started to keeping track of your own plants, along with its other grow in a circle, I would move it, and it created cork- obvious benefits. screws. I finally got it going more horizontally by training it with some electrical wire. It finally grew out from under I am an ―orchid omnivore‖… specializing in anything the patio cover, and headed toward the open sky. After that I can manage to grow. I have great admiration for escaping the shade cloth, we had a hot day, and the tip people who find a challenge in exploring a genus in withered.
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