{"id":12862,"date":"2012-08-15T07:20:01","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T15:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=12862"},"modified":"2012-12-04T17:58:56","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T01:58:56","slug":"arctic-orchids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/15\/arctic-orchids\/","title":{"rendered":"Arctic Orchids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Canada, the <em>Ottawa Citizen<\/em> tells of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ottawacitizen.com\/travel\/Arctic+orchids+other+delights\/7072723\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Arctic Orchids and Other Delights<\/a>.  If the phrase &#8220;Arctic orchids&#8221; sounds like a joke, keep in mind that  orchids are the world&#8217;s largest flower family, and live on every  continent but Antarctica. We know tropical orchids best, but Canada is home to dozens of species, like  those celebrated at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/30\/bruce-peninsula-orchid-festival\/\">the annual Bruce Peninsula Orchid Festival<\/a>. Further north, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flora.dempstercountry.org\/0.Site.Folder\/Species.Program\/Species.php?species_id=Plata.abtu\" target=\"_blank\">Northern Bog Orchid<\/a> doesn&#8217;t have the prettiest flowers, but it does have the ability to survive on the tundra of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baffin_Island\" target=\"_blank\">Baffin Island<\/a>,  which is better known for polar bears and glaciers. Scientists have just discovered it there on a recent expedition during this summer&#8217;s short  growing season. It joins the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flora.dempstercountry.org\/0.Site.Folder\/Species.Program\/Species.php?species_id=Coral.trifi\" target=\"_blank\">Northern Coralroot Orchid<\/a> which was already known from Baffin Island. &#8220;When people think of the  Arctic they think of ice,\u201d says Jeff Saarela, a botanist on the trek.  \u201cThey don\u2019t even think that there\u2019s much life up there. But the Arctic  is incredibly diverse. There are hundreds of species of plants and other  organisms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/San_Francisco_Zoo_polar_bear_800px.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-12877\" title=\"Orchid aficionado\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/San_Francisco_Zoo_polar_bear_800px-128x96.jpg\" alt=\"Orchid aficionado\" width=\"128\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/San_Francisco_Zoo_polar_bear_800px-128x96.jpg 128w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/San_Francisco_Zoo_polar_bear_800px-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/San_Francisco_Zoo_polar_bear_800px.JPG 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T<\/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":[15,22,10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-growers","category-in-the-news","category-orchids-in-the-wild","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12862","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=12862"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12888,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12862\/revisions\/12888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}