SOUTHERN ONTARIO ORCHID SOCIETY NEWS October 2016, Volume 51, Issue 9 Meeting since 1965 Next Meeting Sunday, October 2, Floral Hall of the Toronto Botanical Garden, 12 noon: Plant sales. Cultural snapshots on the stage at 12:15 pm. The topic will be Humidity presented by Alexsi Antanaitis Speaker Program at 1 pm ; Our speaker is Graham Wood who will be speaking on the Topic: Paphiopedilum Maudiae. Why has it changed so much? Graham is the founding owner, in 1990, of Lehua Orchids located on Hawaii Island, the Big Island. Since 2000 Lehua Orchids has focused on breeding new hybrids, primarily Paphiopedilums, with smaller programs in Lycaste and Angraecoids, and recently has commenced a Phragmipedium program. The Paph program has achieved considerable success and recognition. Amongst active breeders of slipper orchids Lehua Orchids is ranked No. 1 in the US for Hybridizers with Awarded Hybrids and No. 2 in the world. (There are hybridizers with more awarded hybrids but they are now either retired or have sadly passed on). Much of Lehua Orchids success has been achieved working with the single flower, mottled leaf, Maudiae style Paphs. Graham will be talking on the changes that have occurred in the Maudiae style hybrids; how these came about; and some of the objectives Lehua Orchids has for future breeding. He will also discuss Lehua Orchids culture of slipper orchids. Graham is an accredited American Orchid Society judge and Lehua Orchids has received over 160 AOS quality and cultural awards since it began exhibiting in 2003. Member plant table discussion. Bring your flowering orchids. Raffle. President’s Remarks Welcome Orchid Our cultural snapshots will continue to take place on the Lovers. Boy has the weather ever changed. It is starting stage at 12:15 pm. October's session will be on to become very cold at night and many of your babies humidity. Alexsi Antanaitis will be running these. All need to be warm. Like most of us, you are beginning to are welcome to participate in the sessions. Remember, bring in your little ones with all the outdoor pests that if there is a topic you would like us to cover, please let have invaded. It is now time to start thinking about me know. getting rid of these unwanted guests so they do not invade your growing areas and create havoc. Our fall shows are coming up quickly. By the time you receive this newsletter, Don will already be collecting A big thank you Jocelyn Webber, Eric and Ellen Lee, flowers for the COOS show. Both Don Wyatt and I will be asking for your plants for the SOOS displays. Synea Tan, Terry Kowalczuk and Joe O'Regan for th th offering their Saturday and Sunday for our growing tours. September 26 – 27 is the COOS show in Cambridge. Don Wyatt will be crafting our display. Thanks Don. After touring the growing areas did I ever come back th th with some new and great ideas to try. Thanks ever so October 15 – 16 is the ECOS show in Montreal. I will be designing the display. much. nd rd th October 22 – 23 is Windsor's 4 annual show. Thank you members whose names begin with the letter Check their website for discount coupons. I will be doing this one as well. N through R for supplying the treats for the September th th meeting. The members whose names start with the November 12 – 13 Essex County Orchid Society's letters S through Ta are on board for October's treats. show. Once again, Don will be designing the display. Thank you in advance, members who generously loan Our future speakers are as follows: us your precious babies. October 2nd Graham Wood, Topic: Maudiae. Why has it changed so much? A reminder to all: when you pick up plants that are for There will be some plants for you to purchase. sale, please either pay for them immediately or put them November 6th Jean Ikeson, Topic: Dendrobiums back where they were before moving on to the next December 4th Party time and auction sales area. If you are not sure if you want them and would like to have the vendor hold the plant, please ask 1 the person to do so. Unfortunately, plants have been October moved and set down elsewhere and the seller is unable 1, TJC Monthly AOS Judging at TBG to find these plants. It is only fair to consider all the 1-2, Central NY Show, Syracuse. vendors in this matter as a new cross went missing at 2, SOOS meeting, Toronto Botanical Garden, our last meeting. Thank you for being understanding in sales 12 noon, program 1 pm this matter. 15-16, Eastern Canada Orchid Society Show and Montreal judging. Now is the time for our 2017 memberships. Once again 22-23, Windsor Orchid Society Show. we will be having a drawing for an orchid at each meeting. If you have renewed your new membership for 19-23, AOS Members Meeting, Huntington 2017 or have become a new member, your name is Library, San Marino, California. eligible for this draw. You must be in attendance to November receive the orchid. If you are not in attendance, we will 5, , TJC Monthly AOS Judging at TBG draw again and your name will be placed into the draw 6, SOOS meeting, Toronto Botanical Garden, sales for the following month. The first draw will be in 12 noon, program 1 pm November and last draw will take place in January so 12-13, Essex County Orchid Society's show. you need to renew before that period. 12-13, Niagara Frontier Orchid Society Show and Mid America Orchid Congress, Buffalo Botanic Gardens. Hope you are enjoying the cooler weather. 19, TJC business meeting and Montreal judging, Jardin Happy Orchiding, Laura Liebgott botanique de Montreal. Questions or comments: Please contact me at: December [email protected] or 905 883 5290 3, , TJC Monthly AOS Judging at TBG. 4, SOOS meeting, Toronto Botanical Garden, sales Plant of the 12 noon, program 1 pm 10, Montreal judging, Jardin botanique de Montreal. Month. This honour went to Sherry Decyk’s AOS Judging Results little beauty, Please note, all of these awards are provisional until Dendrobium published by the American Orchid Society. Hibiki ‘Pauwela’ Toronto Judging Centre, September 3, 2016: Our guest Paphinia benzengii CBR-AOS, Doris Jensen. speaker Alan Note! The next judging will be held at the Toronto Koch informed Botanical Gardens, Saturday October 1, 2016; judging us that this plant education at 10 am; judging at 1 pm. AOS Judging is a has flowers that service of the American Orchid Society and is open to are lighter than all! Bring us your flowering orchids, the FCC clone of this cross, called ‘Tiny Bubbles’, but are 25% larger than it instead! The leafless last Native Orchid Rescue Offer by the year’s pseudo-bulbs were just covered with the SOOS Conservation Committee slightly cupped light magenta flowers with a darker Do you know places where native orchids grow that may magenta and yellow lip. It is a cross of Dend. be threatened by upcoming road or building construction bracteosum and laevifolium. Sherry and Peter or other developments? If so, SOOS's Conservation bought two plants of the cross from H&R two years Committee would like to know where and whom to ago. The other one is a poorer grower. This is the contact in the hopes of mounting a rescue operation. first time this plant bloomed - as a result of Sherry Our goal will be to carefully remove and transplant those giving it more light. She grows it warm, with 62F orchids to suitable new locations where they will again have the opportunity to thrive. If you can help, contact nights in the winter. It is potted in a seedling bark any member of the Conservation Committee directly or mix. It gets watered once a week and fertilized Tom Shields, the chair, at [email protected]. every two weeks. Too bad Sherry and Peter did not bring it to the judging the day before..... Congratulations anyway! Holger Perner in China transcribed by Inge Poot. 2016 All illustrations courtesy Holger Perner, PhD Coming Events Our August 2016 Orchid Fest featured Holger Perner as September our speaker and supplier of some of the orchids his 24,25, Central Ontario Orchid Society Show, company grows in China. This is the conclusion to the Hespeler Arena, Cambridge, Ontario. transcript published in the last newsletter. 2 Paphiopedilum in China: Paphiopedilum macranthum is in the same subgenus. It comes from SE Yunnan an area that is much more humid and warmer. The plants grow on limestone cliffs and also on the bottom of them in rotten leaves and forest duff. The winters are much cooler than the summers and this must be copied in cultivation. The large flowers have a huge white lip with heavy pink flushing around the opening to the pouch. The sepals and petals are rounded, much smaller than the pouch, beige to chartreuse with red-brown reticulation, heavier on the petals. The staminode is flushed with deep yellow. Paphiopedilum emmersonii is distinctive for its large, creamy, oval petals and the relatively small yellow lip. The cream sepals visually balance the petals quite well. It is an impressive flower! All Chinese Paphiopedlum species grow in areas with Paphiopedlum hangianum is the largest Paph in this high humidity. subgenus. It has cream flowers with maroon “eyes” at the base of the petals. All the segments are full and Paphiopedilum armeniacum is in the subgenus rounded resulting in a lovely flower in the best clones.