{"id":181,"date":"2008-09-09T17:48:45","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T01:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/09\/big-flower\/"},"modified":"2009-09-01T22:23:57","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T06:23:57","slug":"big-flower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/09\/big-flower\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Flower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The title pretty much says it all. The scientific name of this orchid, Sobralia macrantha, translates as &#8220;big flower,&#8221; and it doesn&#8217;t disappoint. This easy-to-grow orchid puts on a great show with flowers that can be as large as 6-10 inches (15-25 cm.) It&#8217;s native to a variety of habitats from Mexico to Costa Rica, where it lives at elevations as high as 11,000 feet (3400 m.) That helps explain why it can tolerate a wide range of temperatures.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/sobralia_macrantha_1_640px.jpg\" title=\"Sobralia macrantha flower\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/sobralia_macrantha_1_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Sobralia macrantha flower\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/sobralia_macrantha_2_640px.jpg\" title=\"Sobralia macrantha flower\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/sobralia_macrantha_2_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Sobralia macrantha flower\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The flowers are reminiscent of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/cattleya.html\">Cattleyas<\/a>, but the similarities end there. Unlike Cattleyas, this Sobralia likes very heavy water and fertilizer, and doesn&#8217;t mind cold temperatures.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/sobralia_macrantha_3_640px.jpg\" title=\"Sobralia macrantha flower\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/sobralia_macrantha_3_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Sobralia macrantha flower\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although the flowers only last a few days, these orchids are frequent bloomers. The photo below shows a flower bud ready to open.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/sobralia_macrantha_flower_bud_640px.jpg\" title=\"Sobralia macrantha flower bud\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/sobralia_macrantha_flower_bud_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Sobralia macrantha flower bud\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The title pretty much says it all. The scientific name of this orchid, Sobralia macrantha, translates as &#8220;big flower,&#8221; and it doesn&#8217;t disappoint. This easy-to-grow orchid puts on a great show with flowers that can be as large as 6-10 inches (15-25 cm.) It&#8217;s native to a variety of habitats from Mexico to Costa Rica, [&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":[5,12,18,10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fertilizing","category-fragrant-orchids","category-intermediate-growers","category-orchids-in-the-wild","category-watering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","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=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}