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SRQ DAILY Sep 2, 2016

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Friday Weekend Edition

"I just tried it to see what would happen and I ended up with a new plant."

- Ray Lemieux, horticulturalist
 

[Science]  Science In Bloom At 2016 Bromeliad Show
Philip Lederer, Phil.Lederer@srqme.com

Sarasota floraphiles will get a chance to see something truly unique next week and maybe even attach their name to it, as the Sarasota Bromeliad Society, or SBS, will be hosting its 2016 Bromeliad Show and Sale from September 9–11, revealing a brand new genus created by past SBS President Ray Lemieux. Properly called a nothogenus, the bromeliad is the hybrid result of a cross between two existing bromeliads. As yet unnamed, naming rights and the plant itself will be up for auction Saturday night.

To create the new bromeliad, Lemieux crossed the Brazilian Encholirium horridum and the Mexican Hechtia rosea, two rather spiny bromeliads that no one even thought could create a viable hybrid. “I just tried it to see what would happen,” Lemieux downplays, estimating the most difficult part to be getting the parent plants to bloom in tandem and allow the possibility of cross-pollination. Even then there’s no guarantee of success, but the results in this case were more than promising. Not only did the new plant prove full of what Lemieux calls “hybrid vigor,” quickly eclipsing one of the parent plants in growth, but also came out entirely spineless—a desired quality among bromeliad growers. “That was the real special thing,” he says. “It ended up being a good cross.”

As a new creation, the inventor or discoverer retains the right to name the discovery for the scientific record, but Lemieux has decided to auction off that privilege along with the plant. According to scientific custom, the name must begin with x Enchotia, signaling the plant’s parentage, but next Saturday’s highest bidder will get to finish the name with whatever they want to enshrine in the halls of scientific discovery. “We thought it would be a good way to get people a little more involved,” says Lemieux, who will be hosting the auction and, once the new bromeliad blooms, helping the owner register it and its customized name with the Bromeliad Society International.

The 2016 Bromeliad Show and Sale runs September 9–10 from 10am–5pm and September 11 from 1pm–4pm. Admission is free. The auction begins September 10 following a banquet dinner at 6pm. For more details, contact the Sarasota Bromeliad Society at its website below. 

Pictured: Ray Lemieux with his new bromeliad. Photo by Marian Kennell.

Sarasota Bromeliad Society

[Good Bite]  Hot Hot Heat
Aviel Kanter, aviel.kanter@srqme.com

This sauce will have you cryin' like a baby at first bite, sweating through your eyeballs, guzzling milk just to put out the fire in your mouth. Aptly named Death by Wings, this take on Buffalo sauce is labeled "extreme," suitable only for those who have an undying love for the hottest of hot wings. The intensity comes from a double dose of cayenne pepper, black pepper and California-grown tomatoes, making for that insane fire-powered kick in the teeth hot sauce die-hards crave. Prove your chops as a wingmaster and drizzle or drench your next bird and feel the sweet, sweet burn. 

The Pepper Palace, 23 North Boulevard of the Presidents Sarasota, 941-552-8397.

[Recipe]  Easy Tahini
Vicki Chelf

Use this sauce over steamed vegetables, grains or salad.

Yield: about 1 cup

Ingredients: ½ cup tahini, 1 clove garlic, pressed, 3–4 Tbsp. balsamic vinegar, 2 Tbsp. tamari, ½ cup water or unsalted vegetable stock. For a more classic sauce substitute lemon for the vinegar and salt for the tamari. 

Place all the ingredients except the water in a small bowl and mix well. While vigorously stirring the ingredients, slowly add the water until the desired consistency is reached. 

Vicki Chelf, Pulp Kitchen

[Hires]  Hoot, Johnson, Lozuke Promoted

Neal Communities advanced Josh Hoot to director of construction, Brandon Johnson to area construction manager and Katie Lozuke to area sales manager. Hoot will provide field leadership for all construction activities and also motivate those who directly report to the construction team. Johnson will provide leadership and manage the construction process to ensure customer satisfaction and Lozuke will be managing and building the homebuilder’s Tampa team to achieve optimum sales goals and further their presence in the Tampa market.    

Neal Communities

[Exec Moves]  38.5 Acres Sold for $2.7 Million

Park 30 Partners, LLC has purchased 38.4 acres at 33rd Street E and 55th Drive E in Bradenton for $2.7 million. The property has been rezoned to accommodate 216 apartments. Dennis and Terri Kotaska and Erick Shumway of RE/MAX Alliance Group represent the seller, Royal Palm, LLC. Alan Forrester of Opportunity Real Estate, LLC and Brian McCarthy of Starboard Tack, LLC represent the buyer.  

RE/MAX Alliance Group

[Hires]  Jans, Wails Added as Full-Time Therapists

The Child’s Protection Center’s Sexual Abuse Treatment Program has added Amanda Jans and Kelly Wails as full-time therapists. A graduate from the University of South Florida, Jans has worked at CPC as a part-time intern since January 2015. Wails is a graduate from Florida State University and previously worked in Pennsylvania for four years as a therapist. 

CPC Sarasota

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