HILLS DISTRICT ORCHIDS 
\ Winter Open Day Sunday 26 July 2009 
@183 Windsor Road Northmead 2152 NSW 
Yam til 4pm (please park in Mary Street or Windermere Avenue) 
Heaps of flowering 
orchids, rare species 
and unusual plants for N 
sale (including u 
a Nepenthes pitcher 
59 _—sprlants and choice 
a Haworthia species), as 
W well as a full range of 
orchid related supplies 
and new and exclusive 
Clivia miniata 
seedlings in a full 
range of colours. 
also attending: 
Tinonee Orchid Nursery, Macquarie Native Orchids and Easy Orchids 
www-.hillsdistrictorchids.com 
Phone: David Banks on (02) 9674 4720 or 0412 123 036 
E-mail: david@hillsdistrictorchids.com 
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HDO Open Days are held 4 times a year: 
Autumn: Last Sunday in February (28 February 2010) 
Winter: Last Sunday in July [with Easy Orchids] (26 July 2009) 
Spring: Last Sunday in September (27 September 2009) 
Summer: First Sunday in December [with Dark Star Orchids] (6 December 2009) 
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Above: Masdevallia (Sun Dancer x 
Pixie Leopard) 
Left: Masdevallia (Copper Wing x Pixie 
Leopard) 
more the giveaway than the flowers, being 
a little larger and certainly more robust. M. 
Chaparana was used with M. decumana 
resulting in M. Pixie Leopard. I have only 
seen the one cultivar, being the awarded 
clone ‘Royale’, which is a really exciting 
plant. The brilliant orange flowers are cov- 
ered in purple spots; the flowers are a good 
size and seem to be produced over a very 
long flowering season. Our plants flower 
from Autumn right through -Winter and 
into Spring. 
Our first M. Pixie Leopard seedlings are 
most rewarding. Strong spotted influence 
in most seedlings. Even when used with 
big reds like M. Rein Wine and strong 
pinks like M. Gertrude Puttock, though 
spots are coming through. Also exciting is 
that some are blooming only 8 months ex 
flask, a sure sign of excellent productivity. 
There is a lot of work to do yet in breeding 
spotted Masdevallias. Other species like 
M. peristeria which grows a little warmer 
will introduce some warmth tolerance and 
there are the finer spotted varieties that 
often come out of M. instar. The 
Masdevallia genus is so large and diverse 
that many more species are available to 
give new and different flower forms. A 
small but potentially very useful hybrid by 
the name of M. Myra (uniflora x cha- 
parensis) has been utilised a little. In the 
making of Crown Point it was combined 
with M. caudata to produce outstanding 
The Australian Orchid Review, June/July 2009 
