{"id":14129,"date":"2013-01-29T06:30:11","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T14:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=14129"},"modified":"2013-07-16T16:41:54","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T00:41:54","slug":"understanding-phalaenopsis-is-key-to-appreciating-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/29\/understanding-phalaenopsis-is-key-to-appreciating-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Phalaenopsis Is Key To Appreciating It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesdispatch.com\/entertainment-life\/home-garden\/orchids-understanding-phalaenopsis-is-key-to-appreciating-it\/article_ff9188c6-4403-5ffd-aa48-77fb42fa366f.html\" target=\"_blank\">At the <em>Richmond Times-Dispatch<\/em> in Virginia, noted orchid expert Arthur Chadwick pens an informative column about Phals.<\/a> Phals, a.k.a. Moth Orchids, are the most popular houseplant sold in the USA today, and they&#8217;re almost all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/04\/hybrid-vigor\/\">hybrids<\/a>. Chadwick details milestones in the past century of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/phalaenopsis.html\">Phal<\/a> hybridization. By combining and recombining Phal varieties, breeders have continued to create vigorous hybrids in a continually-evolving palette of colors and designs. Species, like those in the first two photos below, have contributed important traits to many hybrid descendants, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/29\/forcing-phals-to-rebloom\/\">the capability to rebloom from old spikes<\/a>, and a tendency to grow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/13\/keiki-a-baby-orchid\/\">keikis<\/a>. Decades of selective breeding have led to hybrids like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/19\/phal-harlequins\/\">Harlequin Phal<\/a> in the final photo. New creations appear all the time, and continue to keep the genus popular.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Phalaenopsis_amabilis_800px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-14135\" alt=\"Phalaenopsis species\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Phalaenopsis_amabilis_800px-128x128.jpg\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Phalaenopsis_amabilis_800px-128x128.jpg 128w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Phalaenopsis_amabilis_800px-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Phalaenopsis_amabilis_800px.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Phalaenopsis_equestris_Rosea_800px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-14136\" alt=\"Phalaenopsis species\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Phalaenopsis_equestris_Rosea_800px-128x128.jpg\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Phalaenopsis_equestris_Rosea_800px-128x128.jpg 128w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Phalaenopsis_equestris_Rosea_800px-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Phalaenopsis_equestris_Rosea_800px.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Harlequin_Phalaenopsis_hybrid_800px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-14134\" alt=\"Phalaenopsis hybrid\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Harlequin_Phalaenopsis_hybrid_800px-128x128.jpg\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Harlequin_Phalaenopsis_hybrid_800px-128x128.jpg 128w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Harlequin_Phalaenopsis_hybrid_800px-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Harlequin_Phalaenopsis_hybrid_800px.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Virginia, noted orchid expert Arthur Chadwick pens an informative column about Phals. Phals, a.k.a. Moth Orchids, are the most popular houseplant sold in the USA today, and they&#8217;re almost all hybrids. Chadwick details milestones in the past century of Phal hybridization. By combining and recombining Phal varieties, breeders have continued [&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":[22,6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-photos","category-warm-growers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14129","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=14129"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16065,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14129\/revisions\/16065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}