{"id":26380,"date":"2016-11-19T16:10:16","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T00:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=26380"},"modified":"2016-12-26T09:05:29","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T17:05:29","slug":"a-beautiful-coelia-orchid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/19\/a-beautiful-coelia-orchid\/","title":{"rendered":"A Beautiful Coelia Orchid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coelia bella is a great orchid species, both easy to grow and easy to pronounce. Its charming purple, white, and yellow flowers give off a light marzipan or almond oil fragrance.<\/p>\n

\"Coelia<\/a>\"Coelia<\/a>\"Coelia<\/a><\/p>\n

To say Coelia, ignore the \u201co\u201d and say Celia like the woman\u2019s name, SEE-Lee-Ah<\/em>. The second part of its Latin name<\/a>, bella<\/em>, translates as beautiful. In the wild, this species lives\u00a0from southern Mexico through Central America in rainforests up to 5000 feet (1500 m) in elevation.<\/p>\n

\"Coelia<\/a>\"Coelia<\/a>\"Coelia<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Coelia<\/a>\"Coelia<\/a>\"Coelia<\/a><\/p>\n

In addition to its lovely flowers, this orchid is also known for its distinctive, egg-shaped pseudobulbs<\/a> (some of them look more like fat tomatoes than eggs!) My plant happily grows outdoors<\/a> all year in a partly sunny<\/a> area next to our house. I give it regular water<\/a>, fertilizer<\/a>, and a winter dormancy<\/a>. This variety can handle a wide range of temperatures<\/a>. It needs extra care during repotting<\/a> to avoid damage to roots. The last photo below shows two fat pseudobulbs and a flower spike hanging out of the pot, indicating that my plant is overdue for repotting. But that obviously hasn’t slowed down the flower show on this beautiful Coelia.<\/p>\n

\"Coelia<\/a>\"Coelia<\/a>\"Coelia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Coelia bella is a great orchid species, both easy to grow and easy to pronounce. Its charming purple, white, and yellow flowers give off a light marzipan or almond oil fragrance. To say Coelia, ignore the \u201co\u201d and say Celia like the woman\u2019s name, SEE-Lee-Ah. The second part of its Latin name, bella, translates as […]<\/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":[9,12,18,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dormancy","category-fragrant-orchids","category-intermediate-growers","category-photos","category-watering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26380","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=26380"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26431,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26380\/revisions\/26431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}