{"id":256,"date":"2008-12-27T11:27:38","date_gmt":"2008-12-27T19:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/27\/scaphosepalum\/"},"modified":"2009-09-01T21:40:57","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T05:40:57","slug":"scaphosepalum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/27\/scaphosepalum\/","title":{"rendered":"Scaphosepalum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This mini <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/masdevallia.html\">Masdevallia<\/a> relative, with a flower smaller than a pea, has a long name, Scaphosepalum. Despite its diminutive size, it&#8217;s capable of staying in bloom for months or even years at a time. The new flowers emerge in succession along a lengthening spike, while the older flowers fall off.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/scaphosepalum_verrucosum_1_640px.jpg\" title=\"Scaphosepalum flower\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/scaphosepalum_verrucosum_1_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Scaphosepalum flower\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/scaphosepalum_verrucosum_3_640px.jpg\" title=\"Scaphosepalum flowers\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/scaphosepalum_verrucosum_3_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Scaphosepalum flowers\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Several years ago, this orchid bloomed continuously for over 2-1\/2 years, and had a flower spike that reached over 3 feet (0.9 m) before it finally stopped flowering. This year it&#8217;s been in bloom a mere 8 months. I&#8217;m hoping to keep it happy enough to challenge my previous record. For this plant, that means <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/care\/details\/water.html\">regular water<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/care\/details\/humidity.html\">high humidity<\/a>, similar to its native home atop the Andes in South America.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/scaphosepalum_verrucosum_4_640px.jpg\" title=\"Scaphosepalum flowers\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/scaphosepalum_verrucosum_4_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Scaphosepalum flowers\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/scaphosepalum_verrucosum_5_640px.jpg\" title=\"Scaphosepalum flower\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/scaphosepalum_verrucosum_5_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Scaphosepalum flower\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/scaphosepalum_verrucosum_2_640px.jpg\" title=\"Scaphosepalum flower\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/scaphosepalum_verrucosum_2_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Scaphosepalum flower\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An insect managed to pollinate one of the flowers. This seedpod matured quickly in a few weeks (compared to many other orchids whose seedpods take months to mature.) The photo on the right shows the tiny burst seedpod resting on a bed of moss. The seeds look like tiny white fibers, and are easily picked up by the wind and scattered like dust. Maybe next year we&#8217;ll have some Scaphosepalum weeds growing in our garden.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/scaphosepalum_verrucosum_seedpod_1_640px.jpg\" title=\"Scaphosepalum seedpod\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/scaphosepalum_verrucosum_seedpod_1_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Scaphosepalum seedpod\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/scaphosepalum_verrucosum_seedpod_2_640px.jpg\" title=\"Burst Scaphosepalum seedpod\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/scaphosepalum_verrucosum_seedpod_2_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Burst Scaphosepalum seedpod\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This mini Masdevallia relative, with a flower smaller than a pea, has a long name, Scaphosepalum. Despite its diminutive size, it&#8217;s capable of staying in bloom for months or even years at a time. The new flowers emerge in succession along a lengthening spike, while the older flowers fall off. Several years ago, this orchid [&hellip;]<\/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":[15,19,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-growers","category-mini-orchids","category-photos","category-watering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","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=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}