{"id":218,"date":"2008-10-20T20:26:28","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T04:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/20\/myoxanthus\/"},"modified":"2009-09-01T19:45:16","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T03:45:16","slug":"myoxanthus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/20\/myoxanthus\/","title":{"rendered":"Myoxanthus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Say what? You don&#8217;t need to be able to pronounce Myoxanthus to enjoy its funky flowers. If you do want to pronounce it, say &#8220;MY-oh-zan-this,&#8221; rhymes with &#8220;try go Kansas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/myoxanthus_1_640px.jpg\" title=\"Myoxanthus serripetalus flower\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/myoxanthus_1_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Myoxanthus serripetalus flower\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/myoxanthus_2_640px.jpg\" title=\"Myoxanthus serripetalus flower\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/myoxanthus_2_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Myoxanthus serripetalus flower\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This orchid is a relative of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/masdevallia.html\">Masdevallias<\/a>, and enjoys high humidity, cool temperatures, and constant air circulation. Its native home is Peru and Ecuador on the eastern slopes of the Andes, where it survives at elevations as high as 10,000 feet (3100 m.)<\/p>\n<p>Just because it&#8217;s scented, don&#8217;t assume that you&#8217;d like the smell. This orchid has a funky scent, like rotting food. Fortunately it&#8217;s faint, and since I keep it outside all year, it&#8217;s not bothersome. Although we humans may not like the stinky scent, I&#8217;m sure it works perfectly to lure some fly or wasp to help pollinate it. A single flower emerges from the base of a leaf, and hangs upside down.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/myoxanthus_5_640px.jpg\" title=\"Myoxanthus serripetalus flower\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/myoxanthus_5_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Myoxanthus serripetalus flower\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/myoxanthus_3_640px.jpg\" title=\"Myoxanthus serripetalus flower\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/myoxanthus_3_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Myoxanthus serripetalus flower\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/myoxanthus_4_640px.jpg\" title=\"Closing Myoxanthus flower\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/myoxanthus_4_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Closing Myoxanthus flower\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Say what? You don&#8217;t need to be able to pronounce Myoxanthus to enjoy its funky flowers. If you do want to pronounce it, say &#8220;MY-oh-zan-this,&#8221; rhymes with &#8220;try go Kansas.&#8221; This orchid is a relative of Masdevallias, and enjoys high humidity, cool temperatures, and constant air circulation. Its native home is Peru and Ecuador on [&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":[15,12,19,10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-growers","category-fragrant-orchids","category-mini-orchids","category-orchids-in-the-wild","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","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=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}