{"id":26165,"date":"2016-10-19T16:55:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T00:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=26165"},"modified":"2017-01-04T16:44:55","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T00:44:55","slug":"new-parasitic-orchid-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/19\/new-parasitic-orchid-discovered\/","title":{"rendered":"New Parasitic Orchid Discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.mongabay.com\/2016\/10\/new-parasitic-plant-doesnt-use-photosynthesis-its-flowers-never-bloom\/\" target=\"_blank\">Japanese scientists have discovered a new parasitic orchid species whose flowers never open. <\/a>\u00a0This strange new Gastrodia species doesn&#8217;t photosynthesize, instead stealing nutrients from fungi in the soil. In addition, its peculiar flowers stay closed, and pollinate themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese scientists have discovered a new parasitic orchid species whose flowers never open. \u00a0This strange new Gastrodia species doesn&#8217;t photosynthesize, instead stealing nutrients from fungi in the soil. In addition, its peculiar flowers stay closed, and pollinate themselves.<\/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":[22,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-quickpost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26165","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=26165"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26259,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26165\/revisions\/26259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}