{"id":12274,"date":"2012-06-10T07:00:40","date_gmt":"2012-06-10T15:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=12274"},"modified":"2012-09-19T21:49:15","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T05:49:15","slug":"the-amazing-monkey-orchid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/10\/the-amazing-monkey-orchid\/","title":{"rendered":"The Amazing Monkey Orchid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visit Kuriositas&#8217; blog for great photos of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kuriositas.com\/2012\/06\/amazing-monkey-orchid.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Amazing Monkey Orchid<\/a>, aka <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/24\/sinister-draculas\/\">the Dracula orchid<\/a>. If you have any doubt why they call these blooms <em>&#8220;orquidea mono<\/em><em>&#8220;<\/em> or &#8220;monkey orchid&#8221; in Spanish, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gvtbolivia\/2707812344\/\" target=\"_blank\">the second picture<\/a>. With one look at the center of the flower, you may think you&#8217;re looking at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0547391005\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=abouorch-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0547391005\" target=\"_blank\">Curious George<\/a> himself. Can you find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/eerikas_bilder\/5271856922\/in\/photostream\/\" target=\"_blank\">a troop of monkeys in the flowers of the aptly named Dracula simia<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Draculas live alongside real monkeys in the Andes. As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/17\/up-a-tree-2\/\">air plants<\/a>, these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/masdevallia.html\">Masdevallia<\/a> relatives even swing from the trees. Dracula blooms emerge from the bottom of the plant, and hang upside down. They&#8217;re just full of monkey business.<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/wms.assoc-amazon.com\/20070822\/US\/js\/link-enhancer-common.js?tag=abouorch-20\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\n<\/script><br \/>\n<noscript>&amp;lt;br \/&amp;gt;     &amp;lt;img src=&#8221;http:\/\/wms.assoc-amazon.com\/20070822\/US\/img\/noscript.gif?tag=abouorch-20&#8243; mce_src=&#8221;http:\/\/wms.assoc-amazon.com\/20070822\/US\/img\/noscript.gif?tag=abouorch-20&#8243; alt=&#8221;&#8221; \/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br \/&amp;gt; <\/noscript><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visit Kuriositas&#8217; blog for great photos of The Amazing Monkey Orchid, aka the Dracula orchid. If you have any doubt why they call these blooms &#8220;orquidea mono&#8220; or &#8220;monkey orchid&#8221; in Spanish, check out the second picture. With one look at the center of the flower, you may think you&#8217;re looking at Curious George himself. [&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":[15,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-growers","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12274","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=12274"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13116,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12274\/revisions\/13116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}