{"id":17393,"date":"2013-11-16T05:15:07","date_gmt":"2013-11-16T13:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=17393"},"modified":"2013-12-18T20:38:10","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T04:38:10","slug":"australians-battle-to-save-rare-orchid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/16\/australians-battle-to-save-rare-orchid\/","title":{"rendered":"Australians Battle to Save Rare Orchid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.radioaustralia.net.au\/international\/2013-10-16\/melbourne-scientists-battle-to-save-rare-caladenia-spider-orchid-from-extinction\/1205788\" target=\"_blank\">The endangered Caladenia Spider Orchid is on the edge of extinction.<\/a> With only two plants known, it&#8217;s Australia&#8217;s rarest orchid. Fortunately, botanists and volunteers are fighting to rescue it. For security, scientists have kept the plants&#8217; exact location near Melbourne a secret. They&#8217;re not even saying which of the hundreds of species of Caladenias this one is. One of the plants bloomed this year, so there&#8217;s extra protection. It&#8217;s surrounded by a cage, and monitored by a video camera. In addition, scientists are collecting the orchid&#8217;s pollen and germinating its seeds at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rbg.vic.gov.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne<\/a>. They hope someday to return plants to the wild. Check out the video below for more about this rare beauty:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HXuk7Fantkk <em>(video no longer available)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The endangered Caladenia Spider Orchid is on the edge of extinction. With only two plants known, it&#8217;s Australia&#8217;s rarest orchid. Fortunately, botanists and volunteers are fighting to rescue it. For security, scientists have kept the plants&#8217; exact location near Melbourne a secret. They&#8217;re not even saying which of the hundreds of species of Caladenias this [&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":[21,15,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","category-cool-growers","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17393","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=17393"}],"version-history":[{"count":64,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17821,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17393\/revisions\/17821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}