{"id":14203,"date":"2013-02-22T06:30:37","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T14:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=14203"},"modified":"2013-04-23T10:05:11","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T18:05:11","slug":"philippines-chooses-vanda-as-new-national-flower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/22\/philippines-chooses-vanda-as-new-national-flower\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippines Chooses Vanda As New National Flower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ph.news.yahoo.com\/-waling-waling--as-nat-l-flower-pushed-103215416.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Philippines is ready to declare an orchid as its new national flower.<\/a> Known in the local language as <em>Waling-Waling<\/em>, Euanthe sanderiana is a member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/vanda.html\">Vanda<\/a> family, and is often called &#8220;the Queen of Philippine flowers.&#8221;\u00a0Since this beautiful orchid is endangered, its new status will enable the Philippines to take more conservation measures for its benefit. It will join the existing national flower, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jasminum_sambac\" target=\"_blank\">a type of jasmine known as <em>Sampaguita<\/em><\/a>, as a symbol of pride across the country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Euanthe_sanderiana_hybrid_800px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-14386\" alt=\"Waling-Waling, the &quot;Queen of Philippine flowers&quot;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Euanthe_sanderiana_hybrid_800px-128x96.jpg\" width=\"128\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Euanthe_sanderiana_hybrid_800px-128x96.jpg 128w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Euanthe_sanderiana_hybrid_800px-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Euanthe_sanderiana_hybrid_800px.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The large, attractive flowers of this striking species help make it a popular <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/04\/hybrid-vigor\/\">hybrid<\/a> parent. With this new emblem, the Philippines will join other countries which have orchids as national symbols, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_flowers\" target=\"_blank\">Singapore, Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Colombia, and Venezuela<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippines is ready to declare an orchid as its new national flower. Known in the local language as Waling-Waling, Euanthe sanderiana is a member of the Vanda family, and is often called &#8220;the Queen of Philippine flowers.&#8221;\u00a0Since this beautiful orchid is endangered, its new status will enable the Philippines to take more conservation measures [&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":[21,12,22,20,6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","category-fragrant-orchids","category-in-the-news","category-misc","category-photos","category-warm-growers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14203","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=14203"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15150,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14203\/revisions\/15150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}