The Atlanta Orchid Society Bulletin The Atlanta Orchid Society is affiliated with the American Orchid Society, the Orchid Digest Corporation and the Mid-America Orchid Congress Newsletter Editors: Mark Reinke & Valorie Boyer www.AtlantaOrchidSociety.org December, 2014 Volume 55: Number 12 DECEMBER MONTHLY MEETING Monday, December 8, 2014 7:00 PM Rock Spring Presbyterian Church Fellowship Hall (o rear parking lot) 1824 Piedmont Ave. NE, Atlanta, Ga 30324 Our Traditional Holiday Celebration! PLEASE NOTE EARLY START TIME – 7:00 PM This month’s meeting will include our pot-luck dinner, gift Holiday owering Laelia species from Mexico, clockwise exchange, and installation of our from upper left: Laelia anceps variety guerrero, Laelia albida, new Board of Trustees and 2015 Laelia anceps variety veitchiana, Laelia rubescens. Ocers. a gift will receive a rae ticket. After dinner and the meeting, tickets will Come ready to eat well and have be drawn randomly. When your fun! Bring your favorite recipe to In This Issue number is called, select a present. share. So we don’t end up with Page Most gifts are orchid related. In the mostly desserts, please follow past folks have brought in plants, 2 ATLOS Volunteer Listing these guidelines: pots, books, artwork and much more. It is always surprising and fun. 3 Events Calendar A thru B – Main Dish President’s Message C thru E - Drinks We will have regular Ribbon F thru J - Dessert 4 Minutes from the November Judging so bring your blooming K thru O - Salad Meeting plants. P thru Z - Side Dish 4 Monthly Ribbon Winners Members may also sell plants at this November, 2014 Our annual gift exchange is event. always a big hit! (Participation is 12 Recent AOS Awards from not required – but, you will likely We look forward to seeing everyone the Atlanta Judging Center regret it if you sit out!) Join in the there as we take time to enjoy and fun by bringing a wrapped gift appreciate our fellow club members worth $15. Everyone who brings at this special time of year! with Grammatophyllum. Minutes of the November that the total of all cash accounts blocking taking place that can be 2014 Meeting of the is $24,597.66. inherited. Another unusual note Class III – Atlanta Orchid Society is that when ‘Southern Cross’ and Dendrobium Group Mark Reinke was the speaker for the original ‘Serendipity’ form Date: November 10, 2014, the evening. He gave an excellent were crossed back together, some Blue – Dendrobium nakaharae – 8:00 pm talk on miniature and compact of the seedlings were peachy Larry & Linda Mayse Location: Day Hall, ABG Cattleyas. This included much salmon and others were pale Attendance: 40 people fascinating history of the yellow. And while both parents Unlike some other classes of breeding of hybrids. are strictly fall bloomers, many orchids, the “lumpers” have The meeting, with 40 people of these ospring also ower in prevailed over the “splitters” in present, was called to order by There was a break for spring, allowing growers to enjoy Dendrobium, and while this the president, Mark Reinke. refreshments kindly organized their long lasting magnicence plant was entered as Epigenieum by Ellen Brand, hospitality chair, twice per year. nakaharae, Kew now accepts it to Membership chairperson, Geni while David Mellard, Helen be in the genus Dendrobium. It Smith, introduced 5 guests – Blythe-Hart and Carson Barnes Blue – Brassocattleya (Cattleya is a delightful miniature that is Greg Cmarik, Russell Chism, carried out the monthly table Jungle Gem x Brassovola nodosa) native to Taiwan where it grows Karen Fleming, Joyce Ford and judging. David Mellard – Gary Collier & Mark Reinke in dappled shade on trees in Timothy Ford. announced the ribbon winners. moist mountain forests. The Red – Laeliocattleya Puppy Love creeping plants form a mat of Hellen Blythe-Hart moved that Carson Barnes conducted the ‘True Beauty,’ HCC/AOS – Matt small, slightly ridged the minutes from the October 13 monthly rae and silent auction. Matsumoto pseudobulbs each carrying a meeting be approved as single tough leaf. Atypically for published in the newsletter. The Mark Reinke adjourned the of Sacramento, CA in 1970, and This plant received an Award of Red – Laelianthe Wrigleyi ‘Blue the genus, the owers, which are motion was seconded and meeting. the only resulting plant that ever Merit in 2002, when presented Lagoon,’ HCC/AOS – Carson large for the plant and showy at passed. became commercially available to the judges by Carter and Barnes close inspection, are borne singly Minutes compiled by was Rlc. George King ‘Serendipity,’ Holmes Orchids at an IPA on a short terminal inorescence. Announcements: Nancy Newton AM/AOS, which was awarded in meeting Kannapolis, NC. They White – Cattleya Love Fresh – They are star shaped and waxy, 1975. The parents were a famous subsequently mericloned it Gary Collier & Mark Reinke with tan to greenish yellow Next month the meeting will be Atlanta Orchid Society and nearly awless white, C. Bob and oered it for sale to their plants grow anywhere from 1000 segments and a reddish brown, at the Rock Springs Presbyterian Monthly Ribbon Winners Betts, and one of the best yellows customers with the caveat to 6000 feet above sea level. Still, shiny lip. They are described as Church for the Holiday party. The November 2014 of the day, Rlc. Buttercup. In that they could not be certain Class II – AM/AOS – Gary Collier & Mark it would prefer to have nights long lived. Most Dendrobium aair will begin at 7:00 pm. There making such a pairing, Mr. King the resulting plants would not Cymbibum Group Reinke below 60F in winter if possible will be a gift exchange with items Class I – perhaps had visions of lovely pale revert to the original. Luckily and can easily tolerate 40F if of $15.00 or less. Please refer to Cattleya Group yellow owers of exceptional their concerns were proved Blue – Cymbidium ensifolium The original cross of this necessary. Fertilizer should be the newsletter for details on food form. But at least at rst, that was unfounded as all the resulting variety album – Geni Smith fairly compact large-owered eliminated during the rest for the party. Blue – Rhyncolaeliocattleya not the result, due to the purple plants have retained the cattleya was registered by its period. George King ‘Southern Cross,’ pigments that were present, breathtaking pale canary yellow As David Mellard mentioned namesake amateur hybridizer The typical form has upright Maureen Mckovich moved that but blocked by genetics in C. of the mutation, with delicate when presenting the ribbon spikes of small owers that are we accept the nominated slate as Bob. Betts. Instead, the yellow shadings of lavender, yellow winners at the November pale yellow to straw colored, with our new ocers and trustees. background color that resulted and white in the lip. I would be meeting, this small growing reddish stripes on the segments This was seconded and passed. was overlaid with a wash of that negligent if I failed to mention species comes from monsoonal and red spots on a contrasting They are as follows: purple pigment and created a the captivating daytime areas of Asia and appreciates less white lip. In the form exhibited, color described by the judges fragrance, which carries a trace watering from late fall through the purple pigments are absent, President – Ellen Brand as light salmon with peach of anise and will ll an entire early spring. Aside from this, it revealing a pale greenish white Vice-President – Barbara Barnett overtones. room with its glory. has a great degree of adaptability background color on the Secretary – Valorie Boyer The ‘Southern Cross’ form Interestingly, while the where temperatures are segments augmented by a pure Treasurer – Jason Mills came decades later when a background color is pale yellow concerned. Its range extends white lip. This species gures Trustees – Danny Lentz, Jan chance mutation in the process and not white, some semi-alba over a wide area that includes Sri prominently in breeding Spenard and Rick Martinez of meri-clone multiplication owers have resulted from Lanka, southern India, Myanmar, compact growing hybrids with produced a plant that lacked crosses made with the ‘Southern Thailand, eastern China, Taiwan, upright spikes and is in the Treasurer’s Report: any purple pigmentation in the Cross’ form, even when the other southern Japan, The Philippines, background of over 950 tepals. This rare occurrence parent was blend of lavender and Malaysia, Indonesia, Borneo and registered crosses, including Jason Mills, treasurer, reported was perhaps even more yellow. So there is a type of color New Guinea, and many islands in three where it was combined serendipitous than the original! between. A various locales adaptable to a fairly wide range beautiful and showy specimens ideal, it brings oriferousness, of temperature and light like the plant exhibited. Due to compact size and sequential conditions. It does need ample the sequential owering of each owering to the table and water while in active growth and inorescence, such a well grown therefore gures heavily in somewhat less in winter when example can have at least some modern breeding with more the plants rest, though it resents owers on it almost year round. than 20,000 registered hybrids drying out completely even then. According to the records, this carrying at least some plant has been previously given percentage of it in their Red – Brassia Memoria Bert Field an Award of Merit by the background. – Sondra Nierenberg American Orchid society as Phrag. schlimii ‘Birchwood,’ and Red – Phalaenopsis japonica – White – Oncidium Sweet Sugar – Phrag. schlimii ‘Wilcox.’ Geni Smith Helen Weil Eventually, the misidentication was discovered and White – Phalaenopsis bellina – Class VI – acknowledged. If shown side by Helen Blythe-Hart Cypripedium Group side with the actual species, the dierences would be obvious not Blue – Paphiopedilum only in plant and ower size, but Class VIII - gratrixianum ‘Violet Surprise,’ in color intensity and pattern as Vandaceous Group HCC/AOS – Carson Barnes well as general morphology of the various ower parts, which Blue – Vanda Chill Out ‘Dewdrop,’ This charming and colorful show clear inuences from Phrag.