{"id":2630,"date":"2010-03-10T17:01:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T01:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=2630"},"modified":"2011-03-31T20:53:11","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T04:53:11","slug":"the-law-of-the-jungle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/10\/the-law-of-the-jungle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Law of the Jungle"},"content":{"rendered":"

After enjoying the polished perfection of an orchid show<\/a>, it’s an interesting contrast to see some wild orchids. In the wild, orchids endure damage from wind, rain, animals, and insects. Other plants grow over and around them. Jungle debris accumulates and rots away.<\/p>\n

\"Bug-eaten<\/a>\"Damaged<\/a>\"Damaged<\/a><\/p>\n

When you’re surviving in the wild, perfection is a luxury. These eaten and beaten orchids aren’t in a beauty pageant. They’re\u00a0 just trying to bloom and reproduce like any plant, and they don’t worry about appearances. A few dead leaves or dried pseudobulbs<\/a> won’t kill the deal.<\/p>\n

\"Orchid<\/a>\"Dendrobium<\/a>\"New<\/a><\/p>\n

The Law of the Jungle may seem brutal, but orchids have evolved to be tough enough to make it. Take these imperfect specimens as consolation that a beaten-up orchid can still have some life in it. Even if a judge won’t give a ribbon to a munched-up Phal<\/a>, the orchid doesn’t care. It’s just trying to survive another day in the jungle.<\/p>\n

\"Cricket<\/a>\"Arundina<\/a>\"Bug-eaten<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After enjoying the polished perfection of an orchid show, it’s an interesting contrast to see some wild orchids. In the wild, orchids endure damage from wind, rain, animals, and insects. Other plants grow over and around them. Jungle debris accumulates and rots away. When you’re surviving in the wild, perfection is a luxury. These eaten […]<\/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":[10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orchids-in-the-wild","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630","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=2630"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2671,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630\/revisions\/2671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}