{"id":24012,"date":"2016-02-08T06:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=24012"},"modified":"2016-04-01T08:44:39","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T16:44:39","slug":"monkey-orchids-in-the-year-of-the-monkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/08\/monkey-orchids-in-the-year-of-the-monkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Monkey Orchids Welcome the Year of the Monkey"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the Year of the Monkey<\/a> arrives, I’m certainly not the first to make the connection with Monkey Orchids<\/a>. It’s easy to see how these Draculas<\/a> have earned the Spanish nicknames orqu\u00eddea mono<\/em> (monkey orchid) and orqu\u00eddea cara de mono<\/em> (monkey face orchid) in their native South American homes. There’s a monkey face in the middle of each flower. These photos were taken at local orchid shows, except for the first two pictures which are from the Conservatory of Flowers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Some Dracula flowers really look like monkey faces. Some you have to stare at for a moment, and others require more imagination. It’s all a coincidence of their appearance. These Masdevallia<\/a> relatives are only trying to attract the tiny flies which pollinate them.<\/p>\n

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The next photo below shows Dracula lemurella. Its species name means “like a lemur<\/a>” due to a resemblance to our primate relatives. These and other fuzzy Dracula flowers certainly add their charms to Year of the Monkey celebrations. Find more amazing Monkey Orchids here.<\/a> Happy Lunar New Year!<\/p>\n

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As the Year of the Monkey arrives, I’m certainly not the first to make the connection with Monkey Orchids. It’s easy to see how these Draculas have earned the Spanish nicknames orqu\u00eddea mono (monkey orchid) and orqu\u00eddea cara de mono (monkey face orchid) in their native South American homes. There’s a monkey face in 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":[15,22,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-growers","category-in-the-news","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24012","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=24012"}],"version-history":[{"count":47,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24213,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24012\/revisions\/24213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}