{"id":16040,"date":"2013-07-15T21:45:27","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T05:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=16040"},"modified":"2013-09-09T11:01:44","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T19:01:44","slug":"an-orchid-disguised-as-a-weed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/15\/an-orchid-disguised-as-a-weed\/","title":{"rendered":"An Orchid Disguised as a Weed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/07\/12\/an-orchid-disguised-as-a-weed\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The New York Times<\/em> uncovers an orchid weed.<\/a> Epipactis helleborine, known simply as\u00a0helleborine, is an old world orchid species which has taken over North America, too. The fact that it&#8217;s happy in a wide range of growing conditions and soils, and can even grow in asphalt, helps explain its spread from coast to coast. Even in New York City, helleborine reliably sprouts in sidewalk cracks, driveways, rock walls, and gardens every year. &#8220;As a weed, helleborine proudly holds its head up with dandelions, dayflowers, horseweed, mugwort, plantains and smartweeds, but helleborine is an orchid, whose modified lip and floral structures are as tropical looking as any orchid growing in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden or the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx.&#8221; Helleborine is closely related to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/05\/stream-orchid\/\">the Stream Orchid<\/a>, the native\u00a0North American species that I grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times uncovers an orchid weed. Epipactis helleborine, known simply as\u00a0helleborine, is an old world orchid species which has taken over North America, too. The fact that it&#8217;s happy in a wide range of growing conditions and soils, and can even grow in asphalt, helps explain its spread from coast to coast. Even [&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":[15,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-growers","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16040","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=16040"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16064,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16040\/revisions\/16064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}