TRIAD ORCHID SOCIETY NEWSLETTER November, 2009 edition Table of contents

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1 TRIAD ORCHID SOCIETY NEWSLETTER November, 2009 edition Table of contents Preview November, 2009 : For this Sunday s meeting. Our speaker will be Juan Franciso Morales Quiros. He will be speaking on Costa Rican orchids. He will not have plants for sale. We will have a farmer s market, so bring plants you re looking to sell or come prepared to find that something you ve been looking for. Thank you to Judy Drisoll for donating back issues of AOS magazines. Any duplicates will be for sale at a price of $10 each. Page 1 Preview Page 2 * November Speaker Juan Francisco Morales Page 3 * October Show Table Awards Pages 4 * Membership Renewal Form Pages 6 * TOS 2009 Speaker schedule We will be having a speaker for our December meeting. Our own Hadley Cash will be speaking and have plants for sale. See you next Sunday, Becky Triad Orchid Society Meetings the Second Sunday of Every Month Location: The Greensboro Council of Garden Clubs, Inc., 4301 Lawndale Drive, Greensboro, NC., Setup at noon / Potluck Lunch at 1:00 pm / Meeting at 2:00pm. New members always welcome! Officers of Triad Orchid Society: President: Dr. Kenneth Karb, kskarb@msn.com Vice President: Dennis LaJeuness, Phd, drlajeun@uncg.edu Secretary: Becky Doby, jamestdoby@bellsouth.net Treasurer: Shirley Anglin, sanglin767@roadrunner.com 1

2 November Speaker Juan Francisco Morales Quiros Juan Francisco Morales Quirós was born in San José, Costa Rica, in In 1993 he obtained a BS degree in Forestry and in 2002 he qualified as a Doctor in Oral Surgery. Recently, in 2008 he obtained his Master s degree in environmental management and now he is a PhD student in Costa Rica. During 1991 and 1992 he worked at the National Herbarium of Costa Rica. Since 1993 he has been working in the Botany Department at INBio, where he has published more than 150 scientific papers, as well as several books and field guides, mostly of Orchids and bromeliads. He is the principal author of the project Handbook of Plants of Costa Rica, conducted by the Missouri Botanical Garden (MO) and founded at the beginning by the NSF. The first 4 volumes of that project were published in the last 6 years. He is a specialist on neotropical species of the family Apocynaceae and has contributed to the study of this group of plants for different projects in Latin America. He has also carried out field work in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia and Brazil and has taught several courses on botany and systematic taxonomy within and outside Costa Rica. Now, he is working on a field guide for the bromeliads of Central America and a series of field guides for the Costarican orchids (the first two volumes published in 2005, second edition in 2009, volumes III, IV and V published recently, PDF covers are included) 2

3 October, 2009 Show Table Awards Cattleya Alliance Species 1 st Costello Epi porpax Goldberg Epi porpax Cattleya Alliance Hybrids, Small Goldberg Lc. Puppy Love True Beauty AM/AOS 2 nd Brogdon Ctna. MauiMaid x C. walkeriana 3 rd Costello Cattleya hybrid Cattleya Alliance Hybrids, Large Kepley Blc. Cherry Suisse 2 nd Anglin Pot. Cheryl Winkelmann Chris 3 rd Kepley Lc. Amber Glow Magnificent AM/AOS Phalaenopsis Brogdon Phal. Lendenii **Best Species** 2 nd Costello Phal. Golden Butterfly 3 rd Costello Phal. cornu-cervi Paphiopedilum 1 st Kepley Paph. Henryanum **Best Flower** 2 nd Brogdon Paph. Barbi-Doll 3 rd Kepley Paph spicerianum Marriet Martian AM/AOS Dendrobium N/A Oncidium 1 st Richman Onc. Sweet Sugar Kalender 2 nd Goldberg Onc. onustum Tristan 3 rd Costello Onc. onustum Vandaceous 1 st BrogdonAngra. Gichleriacum x Scottiarum 2 nd Kepley Vasco. Pine Rivers Redland AM/AOS 3 rd Kepley Asctm. Curvifolium Cymbidium 1 st N/A Miscellaneous 1 s BrogdonCeratoslytis rubra **Best Specimen** 2 nd Costello Coel. Fimbriata Sellon 3 rd Spuller Bulb. Eliz. Buckleberry Phragmidedium 1 st Kepley Phrag. Carol Kanzer 3

4 2010 MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION OR RENEWAL Name: (Please Print) Address: Phone: Address: AOS Member? Cell: Yes No Years growing orchids Special Interest Area Dues: $15 per year for single membership $20 per year for family membership Please complete this form and return with a check payable to Triad Orchid Society to the treasurer at the next meeting or mail to: Mrs. Annette Hastie, 701 Sylvan Road, Winston-Salem, NC Please fill out your declaration for this year s show table awards. Please declare whether you are a small grower (less than 200 plants) or a large grower (over 200 plants) as of January Name: (PLEASE PRINT) Category for declaration: Small grower (1-199 plants as of January 1, 2010) Large grower (200 or more plants as of January 1, 2010) Date: Signed: 4

5 Triad Orchid Society Meeting Schedule, 2009 Meeting Name/ Affiliation Contact Information Subject Plants for sale (Y/N) January Bill Mathis/ Wild Orchid Company Gardening with hardy terrestrials N February Patricia Harding pih@century.net Debatable Epidendrums- Prosthechea N March Weyman Bussey goldenbear@rocketmail.com Mexican Species Yes April Jeff Bradley jefftex@att.net Classic cattleyas No May 17 Janet & Steve Shifflett Holistic Orchid Care Yes June 7 Jose Esposito soroa@att.net Orchid Culture Yes July 12 Tom Nasser Bulbophyllums Yes August Mario Ferrusi mferrusi@sympatico.ca Mario s orchids A to Z Yes September TOS Auction TOS Auction October Nolan Newton Nolan.newton@ncder.gov Pest Control No November Dr. Francisco Morales jfmda@yahoo.com, Costa Rican Orchid? December Hadley Cash marriottorchids@triad.rr.com 5