{"id":13674,"date":"2012-12-10T07:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T15:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=13674"},"modified":"2013-02-05T18:11:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T02:11:10","slug":"orchids-of-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/10\/orchids-of-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Orchids of Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.australiangeographic.com.au\/journal\/orchids-of-australia.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Australian Geographic<\/em> proudly displays that nation&#8217;s most beautiful orchids.<\/a> The article includes a gallery of brilliant illustrations which bring Australia&#8217;s most &#8220;stunning, mysterious and diverse&#8221; orchids to life. Starting with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/17\/underground-orchid-reveals-plant-evolution\/\">the bizarre underground Rhizanthella orchid<\/a>, the detailed botanical drawings feature the flamboyant Queen of Sheba orchid, the weird Large Duck Orchid, and many more. Images also show details on pollination, growth habits, and conservation status. Many Australian natives are endangered. While the country has about 6% of the world&#8217;s orchid species, 25% of extinctions are occurring there. Take a trip down under to enjoy these unusual specimens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Geographic proudly displays that nation&#8217;s most beautiful orchids. The article includes a gallery of brilliant illustrations which bring Australia&#8217;s most &#8220;stunning, mysterious and diverse&#8221; orchids to life. Starting with the bizarre underground Rhizanthella orchid, the detailed botanical drawings feature the flamboyant Queen of Sheba orchid, the weird Large Duck Orchid, and many more. Images [&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":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13674","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=13674"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13683,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13674\/revisions\/13683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}