{"id":24448,"date":"2016-03-06T18:10:07","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T02:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=24448"},"modified":"2016-04-12T19:30:42","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T03:30:42","slug":"more-photos-from-pacific-orchid-expo-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/06\/more-photos-from-pacific-orchid-expo-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"More Photos from Pacific Orchid Expo 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Masdevallia<\/a>\"Angraecum<\/a>\"Lycaste<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Ophrys<\/a>\"Phragmipedium<\/a>\"Phalaenopsis<\/a><\/p>\n

There aren’t enough superlatives to describe the Pacific Orchid Expo<\/a>, with countless stunning blooms and more floral fragrances than my nose can process. But I think an under-appreciated aspect of the show is the diversity of all of these flowers. It’s mind-bending to contemplate that these all belong to a single plant family.<\/p>\n

\"Epicattleya<\/a>\"Epidendrum<\/a>\"Mormodes<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Pleurothallis<\/a>\"Masdevallia<\/a>\"Phalaenopsis<\/a><\/p>\n

This is far beyond the orchid variety to be found at an average supermarket or florist. They only sell a few limited types of orchids in different colors and sizes. (The last photo shows a Harlequin Moth Orchid<\/a> as a prime example.) They’re certainly beautiful flowers in their own right, but they represent only a tiny fraction of the diverse orchid family. The Pacific Orchid Expo excels in offering so much more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There aren’t enough superlatives to describe the Pacific Orchid Expo, with countless stunning blooms and more floral fragrances than my nose can process. But I think an under-appreciated aspect of the show is the diversity of all of these flowers. It’s mind-bending to contemplate that these all belong to a single plant family. This is […]<\/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":[11,27,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-growing-orchids-in-san-francisco","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24448","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=24448"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24489,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24448\/revisions\/24489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}