{"id":17560,"date":"2013-11-29T23:38:04","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T07:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=17560"},"modified":"2013-12-21T19:22:14","modified_gmt":"2013-12-22T03:22:14","slug":"orchid-seeds-natures-tiny-treasures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/29\/orchid-seeds-natures-tiny-treasures\/","title":{"rendered":"Orchid Seeds \u2013 Nature\u2019s Tiny Treasures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kew.org\/news\/kew-blogs\/millennium-seed-bank\/orchid-seeds-natures-tiny-treasures.htm\" target=\"_blank\">In the UK, Kew&#8217;s Millennium Seed Bank (MSB) is saving orchid seeds.<\/a> As protection against extinction, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kew.org\/visit-wakehurst\/garden-attractions-A-Z\/Millennium-Seed-Bank.htm\" target=\"_blank\">the MSB<\/a> stores seeds from thousands of plant species. Since orchid seeds are so tiny, they can be difficult to conserve. Orchids have the smallest seeds of any flowering plants. Some are only as big as specks of dust, 0.002 inch (0.05 mm,) while others are as &#8220;large&#8221; as\u00a0\u00bc inch (6 mm.) These minuscule seeds have evolved to blow in the wind. Out of millions of seeds, only a few may land in good spots with the correct growing conditions and the right fungal partners.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/02\/all-about-vanilla\/\">Vanillas<\/a> spread their seeds differently than other orchids. They are not dispersed by the wind, but have a sticky oil. This oil probably helps Vanilla seeds affix to visiting insects and hitch a ride. By studying orchid seeds and their conservation, the MSB is advancing knowledge of these tiny treasures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the UK, Kew&#8217;s Millennium Seed Bank (MSB) is saving orchid seeds. As protection against extinction, the MSB stores seeds from thousands of plant species. Since orchid seeds are so tiny, they can be difficult to conserve. Orchids have the smallest seeds of any flowering plants. Some are only as big as specks of dust, [&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":[21,22,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","category-in-the-news","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17560","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=17560"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17587,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17560\/revisions\/17587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}