{"id":22928,"date":"2015-09-10T21:30:52","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T05:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=22928"},"modified":"2015-11-11T08:19:46","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T16:19:46","slug":"unusual-orchids-at-kew-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/10\/unusual-orchids-at-kew-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"Unusual Orchids At Kew Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"

These photos from our recent trip to Kew Gardens<\/a> highlight the depth of their esteemed orchid collection. Many of these are less well-known orchids. Some have tiny flowers or muted colors, and many are rare. They’re still just as fascinating as their showier orchid cousins in cultivation.<\/p>\n

\"Purple<\/a>\"Scaphosepalum<\/a>\"Epidendrum<\/a><\/p>\n

These unusual, uncommon species include the tiny yellow Scaphosepalum flowers in the middle photo above, looking somewhat like a three-headed snake. In the middle photo below, the climbing vine belongs to an endangered vanilla species (it’s not one that we eat<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

\"Paphiopedilum<\/a>\"Vanilla<\/a>\"Purple<\/a><\/p>\n

It was tough to take good photos of some of the miniature blooms. My camera just wasn’t able to focus on such small objects. There were a few without nametags, but I’ve done my best guesses on the ones I recognize. All of these were on display in the orchid zones of the Princess of Wales Conservatory<\/a>. It’s always worth a visit.<\/p>\n

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

These photos from our recent trip to Kew Gardens highlight the depth of their esteemed orchid collection. Many of these are less well-known orchids. Some have tiny flowers or muted colors, and many are rare. They’re still just as fascinating as their showier orchid cousins in cultivation. These unusual, uncommon species include the tiny yellow […]<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botanical-gardens","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22928","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=22928"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22965,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22928\/revisions\/22965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}