{"id":2121,"date":"2010-02-03T16:05:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T00:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=2121"},"modified":"2010-07-18T13:30:50","modified_gmt":"2010-07-18T21:30:50","slug":"orchids-on-a-volcano-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/03\/orchids-on-a-volcano-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"Orchids on a Volcano redux"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year when I blogged about orchids on a volcano<\/a>, it was about Akatsuka Orchids<\/a> on Hawaii’s Big Island. This time, the orchids are growing right on the rim of a volcanic crater. Dave took some great photos of wild orchids while we hiked the Kilauea Iki trail<\/a> in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park<\/a>. The first set shows Arundinas, or Bamboo Orchids<\/a>, growing in one of the volcano’s forests. Hardened black lava provides a dramatic backdrop.<\/p>\n

\"Arundina<\/a>\"Arundina<\/a>\"Arundina<\/a><\/p>\n

Kilauea is an active volcano, but the last major lava action in this crater was 1959. Much of the rainforest on the rim has regrown in the past half century, and we saw numerous Phaius orchids on the forest floor (“Phaius” is pronounced FAY-us, and rhymes with “pay us.”) Like Bamboo Orchids, Phaius are terrestrials that grow in soil and in rock crevices.<\/p>\n

\"Phaius<\/a>\"Phaius<\/a>\"Phaius<\/a><\/p>\n

Although neither species is native to Hawaii, both have naturalized in rainy parts of the islands. These orchids are thriving despite harsh growing conditions near the 4100 ft. (1250 m) summit. Besides strong tropical winds and rains, the black lava really bakes as it absorbs heat from the tropical sun. More amazing than that, these orchids survive dangerous levels of sulfur dioxide gas that vent nearby, although we took our hike on a day when the winds were in our favor. The final photo shows the eastern section of Kilauea Iki with the forest growing on its walls and rim. At this end the crater is 400 ft. (122 m) deep and over 1 mile (1.6 km) wide.<\/p>\n

\"Arundina<\/a>\"Arundina<\/a>\"View<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last year when I blogged about orchids on a volcano, it was about Akatsuka Orchids on Hawaii’s Big Island. This time, the orchids are growing right on the rim of a volcanic crater. Dave took some great photos of wild orchids while we hiked the Kilauea Iki trail in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. The first […]<\/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":[20,10,6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-orchids-in-the-wild","category-photos","category-warm-growers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121","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=2121"}],"version-history":[{"count":71,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2199,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions\/2199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}