{"id":19310,"date":"2014-07-05T22:10:58","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T06:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=19310"},"modified":"2014-07-29T10:15:09","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T18:15:09","slug":"eurychone-a-tropical-african-orchid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/05\/eurychone-a-tropical-african-orchid\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurychone – A Tropical African Orchid"},"content":{"rendered":"

These unusual flowers belong to a fascinating orchid. This species has beautiful blooms, a pleasant scent, and a hard-to-pronounce name. Eurychone is Greek for “broad funnel,” which describes the wide, round flower lip. To pronounce Eurychone, say “you-rye-CONE-ee.”<\/p>\n

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Eurychones are native to equatorial rainforests in West and Central Africa. They are related to the Angraecum<\/a> family. These white, green, and brown flowers have a light cinnamon scent. Blooms hang down below the leaves, so the plants should be mounted<\/a>, or grown in pots<\/a> with room for flowers to emerge underneath.<\/p>\n

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This species doesn’t need much light<\/a>, and will be happy alongside Moth Orchids<\/a>. Keep them out of direct sun, or their broad, leathery leaves may burn. Provide warm temps<\/a>, high humidity<\/a>, and regular water<\/a>. In winter, give them slightly cooler temps and a little less water, but keep humidity high.<\/p>\n

Orchid growers have created hybrids<\/a> with Angraecum and Aerangis. These crosses appear under the names Euryangis and Eurygraecum. And I’m sorry, but I don’t know how to pronounce those.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These unusual flowers belong to a fascinating orchid. This species has beautiful blooms, a pleasant scent, and a hard-to-pronounce name. Eurychone is Greek for “broad funnel,” which describes the wide, round flower lip. To pronounce Eurychone, say “you-rye-CONE-ee.” Eurychones are native to equatorial rainforests in West and Central Africa. They are related to the Angraecum […]<\/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":[12,3,19,6,16,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fragrant-orchids","category-growing","category-mini-orchids","category-photos","category-warm-growers","category-watering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19310","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=19310"}],"version-history":[{"count":54,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19376,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19310\/revisions\/19376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}