{"id":2282,"date":"2010-02-21T15:01:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T23:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=2282"},"modified":"2013-03-24T14:11:58","modified_gmt":"2013-03-24T22:11:58","slug":"heliconias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/21\/heliconias\/","title":{"rendered":"Heliconias"},"content":{"rendered":"

Besides orchids, few flowers inspire more superlatives than Heliconias. These blooms scream tropical. Sometimes called lobster-claws, wild plantains, or false birds-of-paradise, their bizarre flowers have wild colors and shapes.<\/p>\n

\"Heliconia<\/a>\"Brazilian<\/a>\"Heliconia<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Parrot<\/a>\"Heliconia<\/a>\"Heliconia<\/a><\/p>\n

These remarkable blooms are actually small flowers encased in large, colorful bracts<\/a>. Some varieties have flower spikes that grow more than 8 feet (2.4 m) long. Heliconia flowers can hang down, stick up, or have a horizontal direction. Many have zig-zags and twisty-turns that seem to defy the imagination.<\/p>\n

\"Heliconia<\/a>\"Colombian<\/a>\"Very<\/a><\/p>\n

Heliconias are banana and ginger relatives, and it’s no surprise that they’re hummingbird favorites. They’re native to jungles of tropical America and some Pacific Islands. These photos show plants growing in a rainforest climate at Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden<\/a>. In colder areas, some Heliconias can be grown outdoors as container plants, and moved indoors for winter.<\/p>\n

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

Besides orchids, few flowers inspire more superlatives than Heliconias. These blooms scream tropical. Sometimes called lobster-claws, wild plantains, or false birds-of-paradise, their bizarre flowers have wild colors and shapes. These remarkable blooms are actually small flowers encased in large, colorful bracts. Some varieties have flower spikes that grow more than 8 feet (2.4 m) long. […]<\/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":[13,17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botanical-gardens","category-general-gardening","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282","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=2282"}],"version-history":[{"count":46,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2454,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions\/2454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}