{"id":133,"date":"2008-07-05T16:51:38","date_gmt":"2008-07-06T00:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/05\/orchid-of-the-day-phalaenopsis\/"},"modified":"2009-09-01T19:50:42","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T03:50:42","slug":"orchid-of-the-day-phalaenopsis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/05\/orchid-of-the-day-phalaenopsis\/","title":{"rendered":"Orchid of the Day: Phalaenopsis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the early 90&#8217;s I received this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/phalaenopsis.html\">Phalaenopsis orchid<\/a> as a gift from a friend, and it&#8217;s been a reliable bloomer ever since. It usually starts to bloom in the spring, and continues through the fall. The large flowers can last for months.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/phalaenopsis_1_640px.jpg\" title=\"Phalaenopsis flower\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/phalaenopsis_1_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Phalaenopsis flower\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/phalaenopsis_2_640px.jpg\" title=\"Phalaenopsis flowers\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/phalaenopsis_2_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Phalaenopsis flowers\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Each flower is about 5 inches (12.7 cm) wide. The photo below shows a close-up of the flower lip.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/phalaenopsis_flower_lip_640px.jpg\" title=\"Phalaenopsis flower lip\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/phalaenopsis_flower_lip_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Phalaenopsis flower lip\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Phals like warm temperatures with bright light. This plant is in an east-facing window, and it does receive some direct morning sun. Its leaves turn a little red on the edges as a result, but it hasn&#8217;t sunburned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the early 90&#8217;s I received this Phalaenopsis orchid as a gift from a friend, and it&#8217;s been a reliable bloomer ever since. It usually starts to bloom in the spring, and continues through the fall. The large flowers can last for months. Each flower is about 5 inches (12.7 cm) wide. The photo below [&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":[3,6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-growing","category-photos","category-warm-growers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","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=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}