{"id":14889,"date":"2013-04-06T19:58:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T03:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=14889"},"modified":"2013-05-26T10:54:15","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T18:54:15","slug":"honolulu-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/06\/honolulu-zoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Honolulu Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Waikiki, just across the street from the world’s most famous beach, the Honolulu Zoo<\/a> welcomes visitors from around the globe. It’s full of tropical animals and plants, many of them rare, endangered, or extinct in the wild<\/a>. Dave snapped lots of great shots during our visit last month.<\/p>\n

\"Water<\/a>\"Gharial,<\/a>\"Vanda<\/a><\/p>\n

The zoo includes an orchid garden maintained by the members of the Kaimuki Orchid Society<\/a>. It’s an addition worthy of the zoo’s royal origins. Hawaiian King David Kalakaua<\/a> and Queen Kapiolani<\/a> donated royal lands to the public in 1876 to create the zoo and adjacent park.<\/p>\n

\"Cattleya<\/a>\"Brassavola<\/a>\"Oncidium<\/a><\/p>\n

Along with the orchid garden, the zoo includes orchids throughout its grounds. The purple Spathoglottis<\/a> in the middle photo below was blooming near the primate exhibits. We saw many warm growers<\/a> like Vandas<\/a>, Dendrobiums<\/a>, and Cattleyas<\/a> among the tropical foliage.<\/p>\n

\"Meerkat\"<\/a>\"Spathoglottis,<\/a>\"Royal<\/a><\/p>\n

The Honolulu Zoo’s other gardens are full of heliconias<\/a>, bananas, tropical trees, native Hawaiian plants, and flora from other Polynesian islands<\/a>. Visit the Honolulu Zoo and enjoy its great collection of orchids and animals in lush, green splendor.<\/p>\n

\"Cheetah\"<\/a>\"Bird<\/a>\"Colorful<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Waikiki, just across the street from the world’s most famous beach, the Honolulu Zoo welcomes visitors from around the globe. It’s full of tropical animals and plants, many of them rare, endangered, or extinct in the wild. Dave snapped lots of great shots during our visit last month. The zoo includes an orchid garden […]<\/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":[6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-warm-growers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14889","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=14889"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14948,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14889\/revisions\/14948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}