{"id":26273,"date":"2016-11-14T08:37:06","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T16:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=26273"},"modified":"2017-01-05T08:02:59","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T16:02:59","slug":"saving-minnesotas-rare-orchids-before-its-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/14\/saving-minnesotas-rare-orchids-before-its-too-late\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving Minnesota&#8217;s Rare Orchids Before It&#8217;s Too Late"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2016\/10\/31\/saving-minnesota-rare-orchids-mission-smithsonian\" target=\"_blank\">The Minnesota Landscape Arboretum is working to conserve rare native orchids.<\/a> The Arboretum is building a seed bank for all of the state&#8217;s 48 native species, including the official state flower, the Showy Lady&#8217;s Slipper. The effort is part of a larger conservation project, headed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Smithsonian Institution<\/a>, to preserve seeds from all of the USA&#8217;s native orchids. Since many of these orchids are rare, and their seeds are as small as dust, collecting them is a real challenge. &#8220;A lot of orchids are the first species to disappear from a landscape,&#8221; said plant expert David Remucal. &#8220;We could be losing a lot of these landscapes over the next 50 years, so we could be losing a lot of these orchid populations.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Landscape Arboretum is working to conserve rare native orchids. The Arboretum is building a seed bank for all of the state&#8217;s 48 native species, including the official state flower, the Showy Lady&#8217;s Slipper. The effort is part of a larger conservation project, headed by the Smithsonian Institution, to preserve seeds from all of [&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":[21,15,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","category-cool-growers","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26273","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=26273"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26379,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26273\/revisions\/26379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}