{"id":11888,"date":"2012-05-05T09:39:10","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T17:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=11888"},"modified":"2012-08-09T08:43:14","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T16:43:14","slug":"mexicoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/05\/mexicoa\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexicoa"},"content":{"rendered":"

A sunny yellow Mexican orchid is here to celebrate today’s Cinco de Mayo<\/em><\/a> fiesta. This mini Oncidium<\/a> relative takes its name from its home country, and it’s easy to pronounce: say “Mexico” and add “-ah” to the end.<\/p>\n

\"Mexicoa<\/a>\"Mexicoa<\/a>\"Mexicoa<\/a><\/p>\n

Mexicoas grow on oak trees in mountain forests in the Mexican states<\/a> of Jalisco<\/a>, Michoacan<\/a>, Guerrero<\/a>, Mexico<\/a>, and Oaxaca<\/a>. This species can handle a wide range of temps<\/a>, and needs a nightly cool down. An elegant mini, it rarely grows above 6 inches (15 cm) high. The tiny Mexicoa plant is a marked contrast to its relatively large flowers, which can be 1.6 inches (4 cm) tall.<\/p>\n

\"Mexicoa<\/a>\"Mexicoa<\/a>\"Mexicoa<\/a><\/p>\n

Nothing I’ve read says that this variety is fragrant, but I detected a light, lemony, daytime scent on my recent purchase from the Pacific Orchid Expo<\/a>. Blooms can last over a month. It’s a colorful Mexican celebration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A sunny yellow Mexican orchid is here to celebrate today’s Cinco de Mayo fiesta. This mini Oncidium relative takes its name from its home country, and it’s easy to pronounce: say “Mexico” and add “-ah” to the end. Mexicoas grow on oak trees in mountain forests in the Mexican states of Jalisco, Michoacan, Guerrero, Mexico, […]<\/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":[12,3,18,19,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fragrant-orchids","category-growing","category-intermediate-growers","category-mini-orchids","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11888","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=11888"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12834,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11888\/revisions\/12834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}