{"id":22675,"date":"2015-08-13T20:15:12","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T04:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=22675"},"modified":"2015-10-16T10:09:39","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T18:09:39","slug":"exploring-the-palm-house-at-kew-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/13\/exploring-the-palm-house-at-kew-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring the Palm House at Kew Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Palm House is a remarkable, historic masterpiece, and also home to a living, tropical rainforest. First opened in 1848, this glasshouse stands as an icon of Kew Gardens<\/a>. The Palm House’s enormous steel frame holds 16,000 panes of glass<\/a>. Along with tropical palms, it features many more exotic plants, too.<\/p>\n

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Orchids hang<\/a> throughout the Palm House, but only a couple were in bloom during our visit at the beginning of summer. The Cymbidium<\/a> species in the next photo was one of the orchids enjoying the warmth<\/a> and humidity<\/a>. At the end of the next row of photos, a bizarre bloom from a small, tropical tree resembles a jellyfish more than a flower.<\/p>\n

\"Cymbidium<\/a>\"Palm<\/a>\"Napoleonaea<\/a><\/p>\n

The Palm House is a multi-level experience. Staircases lead to an upper walkway with spectacular views of the jungle canopy. The basement level contains aquariums with plants and fish from several marine ecosystems.<\/p>\n

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Among its lush beauty, the Palm House is home to the world’s oldest potted plant<\/a>, shown in the final photo below. This cycad palm was originally sent by ship from South Africa in 1773, over 240 years ago. It arrived at Kew in 1775, and was one of the first plants moved into the Palm House when it opened. It’s another one of Kew’s remarkable, historic treasures.<\/p>\n

\"Hibiscus<\/a>\"Light-blue<\/a>\"Encephalartos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Palm House is a remarkable, historic masterpiece, and also home to a living, tropical rainforest. First opened in 1848, this glasshouse stands as an icon of Kew Gardens. The Palm House’s enormous steel frame holds 16,000 panes of glass. Along with tropical palms, it features many more exotic plants, too. Orchids hang throughout the […]<\/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":[13,6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botanical-gardens","category-photos","category-warm-growers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22675","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=22675"}],"version-history":[{"count":51,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22741,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22675\/revisions\/22741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}