{"id":111,"date":"2008-06-03T07:57:30","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T15:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/03\/orchid-of-the-day-sarcochilus\/"},"modified":"2009-09-01T21:22:39","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T05:22:39","slug":"orchid-of-the-day-sarcochilus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/03\/orchid-of-the-day-sarcochilus\/","title":{"rendered":"Orchid of the Day: Sarcochilus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So many people think of orchids as delicate and fragile, but this little Sarcochilus hartmanii is one tough plant. Related to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/phalaenopsis.html\">Phalaenopsis<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/vanda.html\">Vanda<\/a>, in the wild Sarcochilus grow as lithophytes, or rock plants. Their roots attach to cliff-face rocks in eastern Australia, holding on despite strong ocean winds. They can handle a wide range of temperatures, and can even survive mild freezes in winter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/sarcochilus_hartmanii_2_640px.jpg\" title=\"Sarcochilus orchid flower\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/sarcochilus_hartmanii_2_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Sarcochilus orchid flower\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/sarcochilus_hartmanii_3_640px.jpg\" title=\"Sarcochilus flowers\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/sarcochilus_hartmanii_3_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Sarcochilus flowers\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Part of their toughness is the durability of their blooms.  These Sarcochilus flowers last 2 or 3 months through the spring, surviving rain, wind, and heat waves. I keep the plant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/care\/details\/outdoor.html\">growing outdoors<\/a> on my back deck, where it receives bright light, including some direct sun.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/sarcochilus_hartmanii_1_640px.jpg\" title=\"Sarcochilus flowers\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/sarcochilus_hartmanii_1_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Sarcochilus flowers\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/sarcochilus_hartmanii_4_640px.jpg\" title=\"Sarcochilus flower and flower buds\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/sarcochilus_hartmanii_4_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Sarcochilus flower and flower buds\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So many people think of orchids as delicate and fragile, but this little Sarcochilus hartmanii is one tough plant. Related to Phalaenopsis and Vanda, in the wild Sarcochilus grow as lithophytes, or rock plants. Their roots attach to cliff-face rocks in eastern Australia, holding on despite strong ocean winds. They can handle a wide range [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,19,10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-growers","category-growing","category-mini-orchids","category-orchids-in-the-wild","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}