{"id":19236,"date":"2014-10-27T19:42:34","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T03:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=19236"},"modified":"2014-11-18T12:00:54","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T20:00:54","slug":"haunting-orchids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/27\/haunting-orchids\/","title":{"rendered":"Haunting Orchids"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boo! There are orchids for every occasion, even Halloween. Here are some spooky orchids to haunt you, if you’re not too scared to go further…<\/p>\n

Ghost Orchids<\/strong><\/a> (first photo)<\/em> —
\nThe famous stars of The Orchid Thief<\/em><\/a> earn a phantasmic name from their weird white blooms. Since these strange plants are leafless, the flowers seem to emerge from nowhere, and hover in the air like bizarre, ghostly apparitions.<\/p>\n

Dracula Orchids<\/strong><\/a> (second photo)<\/em> —
\nThese orchids\u00a0hang upside down like bats, wear monkey masks<\/a>, and smell like musty fungus. In the photo below, the black flower of Dracula vampira leaves a biting impression.<\/p>\n

Spider Orchids<\/strong><\/a> (third photo)<\/em> —
\nSpider Orchids, or Brassias, don’t have eight legs, but their long petals help make them great arachnid mimics. They’re good enough to convince spider-hunting wasps to attack. It’s a freaky, sneaky way of tricking the wasps into pollinating them.<\/p>\n

\"Ghost<\/a>\"Dracula<\/a>\"Brassia<\/a><\/p>\n

Bulbophyllums<\/strong> (fourth and fifth photos)<\/em> —
\nSome Bulbophyllum flowers stink like rotting meat. Others foul the air with a scent which smells like something you scraped off the bottom of your shoe. They’re beautiful blooms with foul fragrances.<\/p>\n

Laelia anceps<\/strong><\/a> (sixth photo)<\/em> —
\nThis native Mexican species traditionally decorates graves on the Day of the Dead, or\u00a0Dia de los Muertos<\/em><\/a>. Would you like these haunting orchids on your tombstone?<\/p>\n

\"Bulbophyllum<\/a>\"Bulbophyllum<\/a>\"Laelia<\/a><\/p>\n

Find more spooky orchids at Smithsonian Gardens.<\/a> Happy Halloween!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boo! There are orchids for every occasion, even Halloween. Here are some spooky orchids to haunt you, if you’re not too scared to go further… Ghost Orchids (first photo) — The famous stars of The Orchid Thief earn a phantasmic name from their weird white blooms. Since these strange plants are leafless, the flowers seem […]<\/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":[12,20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fragrant-orchids","category-misc","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19236","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=19236"}],"version-history":[{"count":70,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20438,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19236\/revisions\/20438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}