{"id":188,"date":"2008-09-16T19:35:28","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T03:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/16\/mini-maxillaria\/"},"modified":"2009-09-01T20:04:08","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T04:04:08","slug":"mini-maxillaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/16\/mini-maxillaria\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini Maxillaria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Think small for these Maxillaria uncata flowers, which are only 1\/2 inch (1.2 cm) long. With reddish-purple stripes, yellow petals, and a white flower lip, these little tropical beauties appear translucent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/maxillaria_uncata_1_640px.jpg\" title=\"Maxillaria uncata flowers\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/maxillaria_uncata_1_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Maxillaria uncata flowers\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/maxillaria_uncata_2_640px.jpg\" title=\"Maxillaria uncata flower\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/maxillaria_uncata_2_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Maxillaria uncata flower\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/maxillaria_uncata_3_640px.jpg\" title=\"Maxillaria uncata flowers\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/maxillaria_uncata_3_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Maxillaria uncata flowers\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This Maxillaria species is widespread from Mexico south to Brazil and Peru, where it survives in a wide variety of conditions. It&#8217;s a tough little orchid that produces flowers for months at a time when given warm, moist conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Maxillaria is pronounced &#8220;Max ill air ee ah,&#8221; sounds like &#8220;Max&#8217;ll carry ya&#8221; without the &#8220;c.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think small for these Maxillaria uncata flowers, which are only 1\/2 inch (1.2 cm) long. With reddish-purple stripes, yellow petals, and a white flower lip, these little tropical beauties appear translucent. This Maxillaria species is widespread from Mexico south to Brazil and Peru, where it survives in a wide variety of conditions. It&#8217;s a tough [&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":[3,19,6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-growing","category-mini-orchids","category-photos","category-warm-growers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","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=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}