{"id":136,"date":"2008-07-09T08:24:11","date_gmt":"2008-07-09T16:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/09\/word-of-the-day-labellum\/"},"modified":"2009-09-01T19:52:16","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T03:52:16","slug":"word-of-the-day-labellum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/09\/word-of-the-day-labellum\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day: Labellum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labellum is the Latin word for &#8220;lip,&#8221; and the labellum of an orchid flower is a modified petal that is often its most ornate feature. This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/paphiopedilum.html\">Paphiopedilum<\/a> features a prominent labellum shaped like a cup.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/paphiopedilum_640px.jpg\" title=\"Paphiopedilum flower\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/paphiopedilum_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Paphiopedilum flower\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/phalaenopsis.html\">Phalaenopsis<\/a> flowers have a labellum with a yellow center surrounded by 3 lobes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/phalaenopsis_flowers_640px.jpg\" title=\"Phalaenopsis flowers\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/phalaenopsis_flowers_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Phalaenopsis flowers\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Usually, an orchid labellum is at the bottom of the flower, but these Dendrobium cuthbertsonii flowers grow upside-down. The orange petal is the labellum at the top of the flower. This mini <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/dendrobium.html\">Dendrobium<\/a> needs cool temperatures and constant moisture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/dendrobium_cuthbertsonii_flowers_640px.jpg\" title=\"Dendrobium flowers\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/dendrobium_cuthbertsonii_flowers_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Dendrobium flowers\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labellum is the Latin word for &#8220;lip,&#8221; and the labellum of an orchid flower is a modified petal that is often its most ornate feature. This Paphiopedilum features a prominent labellum shaped like a cup. These Phalaenopsis flowers have a labellum with a yellow center surrounded by 3 lobes. Usually, an orchid labellum is at [&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":[15,19,20,6,16,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-growers","category-mini-orchids","category-misc","category-photos","category-warm-growers","category-watering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","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=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}