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If unclaimed, return to The Editor 204 Park Street, Henley Brook WA 6055

Peter & Shirley Masters 110 Crawford St East Cannington 6107 WA Phone: 08 93506087 Mob 0419831177 Shirley 0414948469 E-mail: peterskorner@ iinet.net.au

Peterskorner is now distributing a range of orchid products from Easy Orchids (Murray and Jean Shergold) and we are happy to take orders, and bring them to the Species Society monthly meeting. Check out our catalogue at www.peterskorner.com , phone Peter or Shirley on the numbers shown, or e-mail peterskorner@ iinet.net.au.

THE SPECIES ORCHID SOCIETY OF WA ( INC )

http://members.iinet.net.au/~emntee/species Newsletter.htm

Vol 21 No 6 November 2009 NE

WS

LETTE

R CULTURAL AWARD, October 2009

Paphiopedilum kolopakingii Chris

Contents 2 General Meeting Minutes 3 Notes from your Committee 4 Noticeboard 5 December home visit

6 Plants displayed October 2009 8 The Genus Sobralia 11 About us

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Present: 37 Apologies: 7 Visitors: 1 New members: P Taylor & A Fernandez

(Vic) Minutes: Minutes as circulated accepted (C Cabassi, G Doherty) Business Arising: Correction to the address of the next home visit. Financial Report: Tabled by Sandra. Current balance is $4,189.73 ( Lee, John) Correspondence: Inwards: • GCA with important dates, safety

measures and AGM minutes. • Dept of Commerce (WA Govt.) • Bruce Larson, the President of the

NDOS about entry conditions to their shows.

• Orchid S.P.E.CI.E.S. NSW Inc, change of address.

• Several newsletters. Outwards: • Nil Business Arising: Nil General Business: 1. Vale Anne and Fred. 2. Thanks to Anne and Geoff for the

home visit to their place last month. 3. Could we have chairs and a plate to

Adrian and Deanne’s on Sunday? Members then bid in the silent auction.

Cultural Award:

Chris displayed a large plant of Paphiopedilum kolopakingii that he had grown from many years. Raffle: Name Badge: Special Raffle: Home Visit Name Badge: Les & Val Home Visit Raffle: Sandra, Trevor, Judith, Chris, Judith, & Murray.

MINUTES OF THE GENERAL MEETING 22 October 2009, 7.50pm

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Monthly Meetings Monthly meetings held on the 4th Thursday each month (exc Dec) at Forster Park Hall, cnr of Abernethy Road and Keane Street, Cloverdale commencing 7.45pm. Monthly meetings commence at 7.45pm. Usually, the short formal meeting is followed by plant descriptions given by members. Supper follows to allow members time to socialise and discuss orchids. All visitors are very welcome Membership Fees Family (1st year @ 2 badges) $31.00 renewal $15.00 Single (1st year @ 1 badge) $18.00 Renewal $10.00 New members who don’t live in Perth will not require name badges, therefore their membership will be at the renewal fee Monthly Home Visit During the weekend following the monthly meeting (generally on the Sunday morning), a home visit is held at a member’s home. This gives members an opportunity to enjoy the fellowship that our mutual interest provides, and to see how others go about growing their orchids. Monthly Plant Display Given that the prime objective of the Society is to promote the cultivation of species orchids, only species or natural hybrids are acceptable for display. Since we all may be uncertain about the identification of a plant from time to time, we encourage members to bring plants along about which they are unsure since someone may be able to identify them. There is no competition nor restriction on flower count, quality or length of

ownership. We want members to be able to see species plants in flower. So even if your flowers are a bit past their best, bring them in as others may not have seen that species in flower. Plant Sales The Society provides an opportunity table for members to sell surplus plants and equipment, and for the Society to sell product from time to time. A commission of 10% is charged on all sales. Plant Purchases The Society endeavours to obtain a different species seedling for sale at each meeting, usually costing between $6.00 and $12.00. The Society makes a small profit on these sales which is invested in benefits to members. As it is always difficult to get new or different species, should members have 20 or more plants of one species which they feel might be suitable as a monthly plant, please contact a Committee member. Raffle The Society conducts a raffle each meeting and at home visits as a means of raising funds. Plant Imports The Society is able to use quarantine facilities provided by Ken & Chris to co-operatively import species orchids. Management In accordance with the Constitution, the Annual General meeting is held in May each year at which time the office-bearers and committee are elected. The majority of Committee members serve two year terms.

ABOUT US

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Sobralia virginalis is commonly found in Peru and Antioquia, Colombia growing as a terrestrial in sphagnum moss beds as the following in situ photo shows.

Sobralia portillae named for Jose (Pepe) Portilla, of Ecuagenera Co. Ltd, Guala-ceo, Ecuador. You may recall that he was a speaker at the last WAOS.

This species is found in the area of Guayaquil, south western Ecuador and west toward Playas. The flowers are lavender, with bright, white spot in centre of large, round lip, with yellow-orange calli. Mark Whitten describes the flowers as “bright purple; throat white, with central line of yellow”. Plants to 3m tall." The final species that caught my attention is Sobralia hirtzii. Found in Ecuador at

elevations around 2200m as a cool to cold growing terrestrial orchid with cane-like, woody stems enveloped completely by imbricate leaf bearing sheaths and each carrying, plicate, ovate, acuminate, thick, heavily veined beneath leaves that blooms on a lateral from the upper axils of the leaves, racemose, several flowered inflorescence with no large basal bracts and carrying long-lasting, large, almost simultaneous flowers

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NOTES FROM YOUR COMMITTEE

• November is our final meeting for 2009, and as in the past, it will be our Christmas Party. Please bring a plate of “festive food’ to share. We also hold a ‘free raffle’ so that each member (individual or family) receives a plant. While in the past we have had spare plants to use, this year we are asking members to donate a plant or two that can be used for this purpose.

• At the December meeting, the President will advise members about venue and/or meeting date changes that have been imposed upon us by the City of Canning. Your Committee thoroughly discussed these matters at our recent meeting and will seek your views about the best way forward.

• Don’t forget the parking - please ensure that you park your car in the bitumen parking area whenever possible as it will avoid a fine!

President: Maxine Vice President: Adrian Secretary: Graham Treasurer: Sandra Editor: Ken e-mail: [email protected] Committee: Chris Michele Lee Sharon Tony Mavis Trevor Life Members Barry Gordon Joan & Ted (decd), Neville Noel & Eva

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NOTICEBOARD FORTH-COMING EVENTS

FOR

SALE/

WANTED

Home visits: From 10am onwards. Please bring a plate of food to share and a chair 29 November Murray & Arni 27 December Michele & Alistair (see page 5) 30 January Saturday - Ezi Gro Orchids, Evandale St Lansdale

Imported plant news The plants in quarantine are looking good after a month -the Dendrobium species have now ceased dropping leaves and many are showing signs of new growth, as are the Paphiopedilum species. Our first inspection /release will be in December. Ken & Chris Jones

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flowers and a relative large, open lip. Christenson wrote: "Plants of Sobralia rogersiana are about twice the size of Sobralia macrantha and typically flower when 1.5-2 m tall. Sobralia rogersiana dwarfs Sobralia macrantha. The flowers are also much larger in Sobralia rogersiana than in Sobralia macrantha . The flowers of Sobralia rogersiana are about 50% larger in all their measure-ments relative to true Sobralia macrantha." The award-winning Sobralia rogersiana, which sports stems reaching 5 feet in height, offers masses of oval or lance-shaped pleated leaves that can reach 12 inches in length. Rogers writes “It's the flowers, though, that really stun the senses. They're 6 to 8 inches across and aromatic, they show-case exquisitely rich purple and crimson hues, the sepals oblong, the petals broader, and the lip, displaying a splotch of yellow, folded round the column at the base. Blooming begins in summer, and each successive flower offers orchid perfection for five days”.

Sobralia virginalis was originally published in "Dictionnaire Iconographi-que des Orchidées," authored by Cogniaux, Celestin Alfred Goossens, Antonie Petrus Gerhardy published in Bruxelles (Brussels); ser. 3, 1: No.9, Sobralia Pl. 3 Text only! (1899). However, Dr. Leslie Garay notes "The illustration on Plate 3 is Sobralia beyeriana Hort. - the reason for this is that the actual type herbarium specimen does not agree with the illustration." Sobralia virginalis flowers are borne apically; they are large, white or rose-colored, and have a golden mark or flushing in the throat of the lip. In 1995, David E. Bennett and Christen-son published plates 201-400 of the Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum, and included "Sobralia yauaperyensis" in that compilation. Christenson says "Our pl. 382 is Sobralia virginalis. We followed Dunsterville's Sobralia yauaperyensis var. alba which is also Sobralia virginalis. Sobralia virginalis is common in Peru and was called Sobralia violacea by Schweinfurth who commented on how odd it was that all Sobralia violacea in Peru were white-flowered, not violet." (pers. comm. 18 Dec. 2003). A variety, Sobralia virginalis var. lilacina Cogn., has also been separately pub-lished in Cogn. Dict. Icon. Orchid. tab. This variety is under investigation by Dr. Eric Christenson who considers that it is possibly a distinct species. (Garay, pers. comm.)

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While not a recently discovered species, Sobralia rondoni is a spectacular mem-ber of the genus. In the notes in Nina Rach’s Sobralia pages, Francisco Miranda 2000. "Orchids from the Brazil-ian Amazon." notes that it comes from a the Amazon border region, growing in large clumps on rocky outcrops, "frequently up to 2 m across and more than 1 m tall. In their native habitat, these plants are subject to full sunlight with their roots protected by leaf litter. The large white flowers have a very large lip with a golden yellow throat. A specimen collected in Bahia, Brazil, on 2 March 1977 was described as an erect orchid to 2.5m. Leaves coriaceous rather dark green plicate. Stems green mottled brown. Tepals magenta, outer tepals paler on outer surface." The habitat was described as being "with water worn hori-zontally-bedded sandstone at soil sur-face, with damp sand, sedge marsh ex-posed rock & waterfall. Open scrub to closed low woodland in the drier areas."

Photo: Erica Moron de Abad This specimen is from Pampa Hermosa, San Ramon, Peru, blooming February

2003. de Abad writes: "Pampa Hermosa (800 to 2,300 m) is near San Ramon and Sobralia rondoni grows at 2,000m alti-tude in rocks with musgo (green sphag-num moss). It is a terrestrial orchid. It grows in full sun and high humidity near a waterfall, in high mountains [where] the rainfall is constant."

Sobralia rogersiana, named for US Sobralia grower and enthusiast Bruce Rogers was originally published in Orchideen Journal in November 2007. The article featured photos of plants grown by Bruce Rogers and Terry Root in California, and by Dale Borders in Oregon. This species first flowered in England in 1842, and was considered a variant of Sobralia. macrantha, with large lavender

(Continued on page 9)

THE GENUS SOBRALIA ( continued from October )

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THANKS FROM CHRIS

A big thank you to everyone who phoned, sent flowers, sympathy cards and the great support received for myself and the family with the passing of my wife Ann. It was greatly appreciated. Chris

DECEMBER HOME VISIT

Michele and Alistair have offered their home for a visit at 11.30am on Sunday 27 December 2009. Members are asked to bring a plate of food to share, but for those of you who have not yet had the privilege of sampling the delicious food they prepare, make sure that you put this date in your calendar. Please bring your own beer or wine. Given her passion for recording details of flowering species orchids, this will also be a substitute for the December meeting that is not on our calendar, and will give you an opportunity to bring along the Christmas flowering species that you would not otherwise get the opportunity to show. Michele’s instructions to Committee Members to get to her home for a meeting were: Head east on Great Eastern Highway. After about 4km look out for brown sign

for Darlington Winery on the right. Move into right lane after this as you will be turning next right into Lionel Road. Go all the way down Lionel to a T-junction, turn left into Dalry Road. At the end is a nar-row lane marked 'private'. Bear right and follow this to the end of the tarmac where you will see a steep drive on the right. As there is limited parking, it will be more practical to park along the road, or perhaps to carpool. If all else fails and you get lost, you can ring Michele on 9252 1668. Please be prepared to indicate whether you will be able to take part in this event at the November meeting

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PLANTS DISPLAYED OCTOBER 2009

Murray and Arni Bifrenaria harrisoniae Cattleya skinneri var. alba Ian Dendrobium lichenastrum Dockrillia linguiforme Paphiopedilum hirsutissimum Graham and Margaret Pterostylis picta sulphurea Chris Cattleya walkeriana Dendrobium anosmum Dendrobium primulinum Paphiopedilum kolopakingii

Bill and Sandra Bifrenaria tyrianthina Bulbophyllum wendlandianum Dendrobium dixanthum Dendrobium nobile var. nobilis Phalaenopsis amabilis Maxine Aerangis sp. (umbonata?) Angraecum viguieri Ascocentrum ampullaceum Eulophiella elisabethae Vanda javierae Ken and Chris Ascocentrum garayi Bulbophyllum pulchellum Dendrobium chrysotoxum Dendrobium nobile var. virginalis

Sarcochilus hartmanii Ray & Nancy McQuiggan

Angraceum viguieri Maxine Godbeer

Rhynchostylis gigantea var.

Viraphandii Adrian & Deanne

Jose

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PLANTS DISPLAYED OCTOBER 2009

Cattleya intermedia var. alba Cattleya walkeriana var. alba Gongora truncata Paphiopedilum philippinense Adrian and Deanna Dendrobium dixanthum Rhynchostylis gigantea var. viraphandii Michele Oncidium flexuosum var. darwinii Gillian Cymbidium floribundum Cymbidium lowianum var. lowianum Zygopetalum crinitum

Peter and Shirley Leptotes bicolor Phalaenopsis philippinensis Phalaenopsis stuartiana Renanthera monachica Ray and Nancy Sarcochilus falcatus Courtney Cattleya intermedia var. amethystina Tony and Mavis Dendrobium palpebrae Trichocentrum pumilum Phalaenopsis amabilis Phalaenopsis philippinensis Phalaenopsis stuartiana Vanda tricolor

Eulophiella elisabethae Maxine Godbeer

Renanthera monachica

Peter & Shirley Masters

Dockrillia linguiforme Ian Bailey

Photography by Tony

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PLANTS DISPLAYED OCTOBER 2009

Murray and Arni Bifrenaria harrisoniae Cattleya skinneri var. alba Ian Dendrobium lichenastrum Dockrillia linguiforme Paphiopedilum hirsutissimum Graham and Margaret Pterostylis picta sulphurea Chris Cattleya walkeriana Dendrobium anosmum Dendrobium primulinum Paphiopedilum kolopakingii

Bill and Sandra Bifrenaria tyrianthina Bulbophyllum wendlandianum Dendrobium dixanthum Dendrobium nobile var. nobilis Phalaenopsis amabilis Maxine Aerangis sp. (umbonata?) Angraecum viguieri Ascocentrum ampullaceum Eulophiella elisabethae Vanda javierae Ken and Chris Ascocentrum garayi Bulbophyllum pulchellum Dendrobium chrysotoxum Dendrobium nobile var. virginalis

Sarcochilus hartmanii Ray & Nancy McQuiggan

Angraceum viguieri Maxine Godbeer

Rhynchostylis gigantea var.

Viraphandii Adrian & Deanne

Jose

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PLANTS DISPLAYED OCTOBER 2009

Cattleya intermedia var. alba Cattleya walkeriana var. alba Gongora truncata Paphiopedilum philippinense Adrian and Deanna Dendrobium dixanthum Rhynchostylis gigantea var. viraphandii Michele Oncidium flexuosum var. darwinii Gillian Cymbidium floribundum Cymbidium lowianum var. lowianum Zygopetalum crinitum

Peter and Shirley Leptotes bicolor Phalaenopsis philippinensis Phalaenopsis stuartiana Renanthera monachica Ray and Nancy Sarcochilus falcatus Courtney Cattleya intermedia var. amethystina Tony and Mavis Dendrobium palpebrae Trichocentrum pumilum Phalaenopsis amabilis Phalaenopsis philippinensis Phalaenopsis stuartiana Vanda tricolor

Eulophiella elisabethae Maxine Godbeer

Renanthera monachica

Peter & Shirley Masters

Dockrillia linguiforme Ian Bailey

Photography by Tony

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While not a recently discovered species, Sobralia rondoni is a spectacular mem-ber of the genus. In the notes in Nina Rach’s Sobralia pages, Francisco Miranda 2000. "Orchids from the Brazil-ian Amazon." notes that it comes from a the Amazon border region, growing in large clumps on rocky outcrops, "frequently up to 2 m across and more than 1 m tall. In their native habitat, these plants are subject to full sunlight with their roots protected by leaf litter. The large white flowers have a very large lip with a golden yellow throat. A specimen collected in Bahia, Brazil, on 2 March 1977 was described as an erect orchid to 2.5m. Leaves coriaceous rather dark green plicate. Stems green mottled brown. Tepals magenta, outer tepals paler on outer surface." The habitat was described as being "with water worn hori-zontally-bedded sandstone at soil sur-face, with damp sand, sedge marsh ex-posed rock & waterfall. Open scrub to closed low woodland in the drier areas."

Photo: Erica Moron de Abad This specimen is from Pampa Hermosa, San Ramon, Peru, blooming February

2003. de Abad writes: "Pampa Hermosa (800 to 2,300 m) is near San Ramon and Sobralia rondoni grows at 2,000m alti-tude in rocks with musgo (green sphag-num moss). It is a terrestrial orchid. It grows in full sun and high humidity near a waterfall, in high mountains [where] the rainfall is constant."

Sobralia rogersiana, named for US Sobralia grower and enthusiast Bruce Rogers was originally published in Orchideen Journal in November 2007. The article featured photos of plants grown by Bruce Rogers and Terry Root in California, and by Dale Borders in Oregon. This species first flowered in England in 1842, and was considered a variant of Sobralia. macrantha, with large lavender

(Continued on page 9)

THE GENUS SOBRALIA ( continued from October )

5

THANKS FROM CHRIS

A big thank you to everyone who phoned, sent flowers, sympathy cards and the great support received for myself and the family with the passing of my wife Ann. It was greatly appreciated. Chris

DECEMBER HOME VISIT

Michele and Alistair have offered their home for a visit at 11.30am on Sunday 27 December 2009. Members are asked to bring a plate of food to share, but for those of you who have not yet had the privilege of sampling the delicious food they prepare, make sure that you put this date in your calendar. Please bring your own beer or wine. Given her passion for recording details of flowering species orchids, this will also be a substitute for the December meeting that is not on our calendar, and will give you an opportunity to bring along the Christmas flowering species that you would not otherwise get the opportunity to show. Michele’s instructions to Committee Members to get to her home for a meeting were: Head east on Great Eastern Highway. After about 4km look out for brown sign

for Darlington Winery on the right. Move into right lane after this as you will be turning next right into Lionel Road. Go all the way down Lionel to a T-junction, turn left into Dalry Road. At the end is a nar-row lane marked 'private'. Bear right and follow this to the end of the tarmac where you will see a steep drive on the right. As there is limited parking, it will be more practical to park along the road, or perhaps to carpool. If all else fails and you get lost, you can ring Michele on 9252 1668. Please be prepared to indicate whether you will be able to take part in this event at the November meeting

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NOTICEBOARD FORTH-COMING EVENTS

FOR

SALE/

WANTED

Home visits: From 10am onwards. Please bring a plate of food to share and a chair 29 November Murray & Arni 27 December Michele & Alistair (see page 5) 30 January Saturday - Ezi Gro Orchids, Evandale St Lansdale

Imported plant news The plants in quarantine are looking good after a month -the Dendrobium species have now ceased dropping leaves and many are showing signs of new growth, as are the Paphiopedilum species. Our first inspection /release will be in December. Ken & Chris Jones

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flowers and a relative large, open lip. Christenson wrote: "Plants of Sobralia rogersiana are about twice the size of Sobralia macrantha and typically flower when 1.5-2 m tall. Sobralia rogersiana dwarfs Sobralia macrantha. The flowers are also much larger in Sobralia rogersiana than in Sobralia macrantha . The flowers of Sobralia rogersiana are about 50% larger in all their measure-ments relative to true Sobralia macrantha." The award-winning Sobralia rogersiana, which sports stems reaching 5 feet in height, offers masses of oval or lance-shaped pleated leaves that can reach 12 inches in length. Rogers writes “It's the flowers, though, that really stun the senses. They're 6 to 8 inches across and aromatic, they show-case exquisitely rich purple and crimson hues, the sepals oblong, the petals broader, and the lip, displaying a splotch of yellow, folded round the column at the base. Blooming begins in summer, and each successive flower offers orchid perfection for five days”.

Sobralia virginalis was originally published in "Dictionnaire Iconographi-que des Orchidées," authored by Cogniaux, Celestin Alfred Goossens, Antonie Petrus Gerhardy published in Bruxelles (Brussels); ser. 3, 1: No.9, Sobralia Pl. 3 Text only! (1899). However, Dr. Leslie Garay notes "The illustration on Plate 3 is Sobralia beyeriana Hort. - the reason for this is that the actual type herbarium specimen does not agree with the illustration." Sobralia virginalis flowers are borne apically; they are large, white or rose-colored, and have a golden mark or flushing in the throat of the lip. In 1995, David E. Bennett and Christen-son published plates 201-400 of the Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum, and included "Sobralia yauaperyensis" in that compilation. Christenson says "Our pl. 382 is Sobralia virginalis. We followed Dunsterville's Sobralia yauaperyensis var. alba which is also Sobralia virginalis. Sobralia virginalis is common in Peru and was called Sobralia violacea by Schweinfurth who commented on how odd it was that all Sobralia violacea in Peru were white-flowered, not violet." (pers. comm. 18 Dec. 2003). A variety, Sobralia virginalis var. lilacina Cogn., has also been separately pub-lished in Cogn. Dict. Icon. Orchid. tab. This variety is under investigation by Dr. Eric Christenson who considers that it is possibly a distinct species. (Garay, pers. comm.)

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Sobralia virginalis is commonly found in Peru and Antioquia, Colombia growing as a terrestrial in sphagnum moss beds as the following in situ photo shows.

Sobralia portillae named for Jose (Pepe) Portilla, of Ecuagenera Co. Ltd, Guala-ceo, Ecuador. You may recall that he was a speaker at the last WAOS.

This species is found in the area of Guayaquil, south western Ecuador and west toward Playas. The flowers are lavender, with bright, white spot in centre of large, round lip, with yellow-orange calli. Mark Whitten describes the flowers as “bright purple; throat white, with central line of yellow”. Plants to 3m tall." The final species that caught my attention is Sobralia hirtzii. Found in Ecuador at

elevations around 2200m as a cool to cold growing terrestrial orchid with cane-like, woody stems enveloped completely by imbricate leaf bearing sheaths and each carrying, plicate, ovate, acuminate, thick, heavily veined beneath leaves that blooms on a lateral from the upper axils of the leaves, racemose, several flowered inflorescence with no large basal bracts and carrying long-lasting, large, almost simultaneous flowers

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NOTES FROM YOUR COMMITTEE

• November is our final meeting for 2009, and as in the past, it will be our Christmas Party. Please bring a plate of “festive food’ to share. We also hold a ‘free raffle’ so that each member (individual or family) receives a plant. While in the past we have had spare plants to use, this year we are asking members to donate a plant or two that can be used for this purpose.

• At the December meeting, the President will advise members about venue and/or meeting date changes that have been imposed upon us by the City of Canning. Your Committee thoroughly discussed these matters at our recent meeting and will seek your views about the best way forward.

• Don’t forget the parking - please ensure that you park your car in the bitumen parking area whenever possible as it will avoid a fine!

President: Maxine Vice President: Adrian Secretary: Graham Treasurer: Sandra Editor: Ken e-mail: [email protected] Committee: Chris Michele Lee Sharon Tony Mavis Trevor Life Members Barry Gordon Joan & Ted (decd), Neville Noel & Eva

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Present: 37 Apologies: 7 Visitors: 1 New members: P Taylor & A Fernandez

(Vic) Minutes: Minutes as circulated accepted (C Cabassi, G Doherty) Business Arising: Correction to the address of the next home visit. Financial Report: Tabled by Sandra. Current balance is $4,189.73 ( Lee, John) Correspondence: Inwards: • GCA with important dates, safety

measures and AGM minutes. • Dept of Commerce (WA Govt.) • Bruce Larson, the President of the

NDOS about entry conditions to their shows.

• Orchid S.P.E.CI.E.S. NSW Inc, change of address.

• Several newsletters. Outwards: • Nil Business Arising: Nil General Business: 1. Vale Anne and Fred. 2. Thanks to Anne and Geoff for the

home visit to their place last month. 3. Could we have chairs and a plate to

Adrian and Deanne’s on Sunday? Members then bid in the silent auction.

Cultural Award:

Chris displayed a large plant of Paphiopedilum kolopakingii that he had grown from many years. Raffle: Name Badge: Special Raffle: Home Visit Name Badge: Les & Val Home Visit Raffle: Sandra, Trevor, Judith, Chris, Judith, & Murray.

MINUTES OF THE GENERAL MEETING 22 October 2009, 7.50pm

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Monthly Meetings Monthly meetings held on the 4th Thursday each month (exc Dec) at Forster Park Hall, cnr of Abernethy Road and Keane Street, Cloverdale commencing 7.45pm. Monthly meetings commence at 7.45pm. Usually, the short formal meeting is followed by plant descriptions given by members. Supper follows to allow members time to socialise and discuss orchids. All visitors are very welcome Membership Fees Family (1st year @ 2 badges) $31.00 renewal $15.00 Single (1st year @ 1 badge) $18.00 Renewal $10.00 New members who don’t live in Perth will not require name badges, therefore their membership will be at the renewal fee Monthly Home Visit During the weekend following the monthly meeting (generally on the Sunday morning), a home visit is held at a member’s home. This gives members an opportunity to enjoy the fellowship that our mutual interest provides, and to see how others go about growing their orchids. Monthly Plant Display Given that the prime objective of the Society is to promote the cultivation of species orchids, only species or natural hybrids are acceptable for display. Since we all may be uncertain about the identification of a plant from time to time, we encourage members to bring plants along about which they are unsure since someone may be able to identify them. There is no competition nor restriction on flower count, quality or length of

ownership. We want members to be able to see species plants in flower. So even if your flowers are a bit past their best, bring them in as others may not have seen that species in flower. Plant Sales The Society provides an opportunity table for members to sell surplus plants and equipment, and for the Society to sell product from time to time. A commission of 10% is charged on all sales. Plant Purchases The Society endeavours to obtain a different species seedling for sale at each meeting, usually costing between $6.00 and $12.00. The Society makes a small profit on these sales which is invested in benefits to members. As it is always difficult to get new or different species, should members have 20 or more plants of one species which they feel might be suitable as a monthly plant, please contact a Committee member. Raffle The Society conducts a raffle each meeting and at home visits as a means of raising funds. Plant Imports The Society is able to use quarantine facilities provided by Ken & Chris to co-operatively import species orchids. Management In accordance with the Constitution, the Annual General meeting is held in May each year at which time the office-bearers and committee are elected. The majority of Committee members serve two year terms.

ABOUT US

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If unclaimed, return to The Editor 204 Park Street, Henley Brook WA 6055

Peter & Shirley Masters 110 Crawford St East Cannington 6107 WA Phone: 08 93506087 Mob 0419831177 Shirley 0414948469 E-mail: peterskorner@ iinet.net.au

Peterskorner is now distributing a range of orchid products from Easy Orchids (Murray and Jean Shergold) and we are happy to take orders, and bring them to the Species Society monthly meeting. Check out our catalogue at www.peterskorner.com , phone Peter or Shirley on the numbers shown, or e-mail peterskorner@ iinet.net.au.

THE SPECIES ORCHID SOCIETY OF WA ( INC )

http://members.iinet.net.au/~emntee/species Newsletter.htm

Vol 21 No 6 November 2009 NE

WS

LETTE

R CULTURAL AWARD, October 2009

Paphiopedilum kolopakingii Chris

Contents 2 General Meeting Minutes 3 Notes from your Committee 4 Noticeboard 5 December home visit

6 Plants displayed October 2009 8 The Genus Sobralia 11 About us