{"id":283,"date":"2008-12-04T17:55:48","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T01:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/04\/trigonidium\/"},"modified":"2009-12-23T19:28:30","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T03:28:30","slug":"trigonidium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/04\/trigonidium\/","title":{"rendered":"Trigonidium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers may notice a penchant for the unusual in my orchid collection. So this Trigonidium egertonianum, with a flower that looks like it could be the face of a crab, should come as no surprise. It&#8217;s another example of the incredible diversity within the orchid family.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Trigonidium flower\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/trigonidium_egertonianum_1_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/trigonidium_egertonianum_1_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Trigonidium flower\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Trigonidium flower\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/trigonidium_egertonianum_2_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/trigonidium_egertonianum_2_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Trigonidium flower\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This orchid is native to a wide area of Latin America, from Mexico through Central America, Colombia, and Ecuador. It prefers to be grown in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/care\/details\/temperature.html\">intermediate temperatures<\/a>, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/care\/details\/water.html\">regular water<\/a> during spring and summer, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/care\/details\/light.html\">bright light<\/a>. The name of the Trigonidium genus comes from the Greek word <em>trigonos<\/em>, or three-cornered, describing the flower shape.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Trigonidium flower\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/trigonidium_egertonianum_3_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/trigonidium_egertonianum_3_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Trigonidium flower\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Trigonidium flower\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/trigonidium_egertonianum_4_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/trigonidium_egertonianum_4_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Trigonidium flower\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Trigonidium flower side view\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/trigonidium_egertonianum_5_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/trigonidium_egertonianum_5_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Trigonidium flower side view\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers may notice a penchant for the unusual in my orchid collection. So this Trigonidium egertonianum, with a flower that looks like it could be the face of a crab, should come as no surprise. It&#8217;s another example of the incredible diversity within the orchid family. This orchid is native to a wide area [&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":[3,18,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-growing","category-intermediate-growers","category-photos","category-watering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","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=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1726,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/1726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}