{"id":289,"date":"2008-12-15T14:30:27","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T22:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/15\/cochlioda\/"},"modified":"2009-11-12T22:57:17","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T06:57:17","slug":"cochlioda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/15\/cochlioda\/","title":{"rendered":"Cochlioda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Related to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/miltonia.html\">Miltonia<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/oncidium.html\">Oncidium<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/odontoglossum.html\">Odontoglossum<\/a>, this charming mini species is an easy orchid. Cochlioda vulcanica is frequently used in hybridization, cross-bred with orchid relatives to pass on both its hardiness and its beauty.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cochlioda flower\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/cochlioda-_vulcanica_1_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/cochlioda-_vulcanica_1_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Cochlioda flower\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Cochlioda flowers and buds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/cochlioda-_vulcanica_6_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/cochlioda-_vulcanica_6_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Cochlioda flowers and buds\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It lives in tropical cloud forests at high elevations in the Andes, where it is pollinated by hummingbirds. The side view shows the long, narrow tube that perfectly accommodates their long, thin beaks.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cochlioda flower side view\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/cochlioda-_vulcanica_7_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/cochlioda-_vulcanica_7_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Cochlioda flower side view\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Cochlioda flowers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/cochlioda-_vulcanica_8_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/cochlioda-_vulcanica_8_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Cochlioda flowers\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This orchid needs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/care\/details\/temperature.html\">cool temperatures<\/a> year-round, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/care\/details\/humidity.html\">high humidity, and strong air movement<\/a>. They prefer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/care\/details\/potting.html\">to be potted<\/a> in small pots. Dave&#8217;s macro lens shows incredible details. The dark area between the yellow spots is the hole where the hummingbird inserts its beak. In our garden, however, I think the hummingbirds prefer the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/epidendrum.html\">Epidendrums<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cochlioda flower close-up of lip\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/cochlioda-_vulcanica_2_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/cochlioda-_vulcanica_2_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Cochlioda flower close-up of lip\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Cochlioda flower close-up of lip\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/cochlioda-_vulcanica_3_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/cochlioda-_vulcanica_3_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Cochlioda flower close-up of lip\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cochlioda flower close-up of lip\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/cochlioda-_vulcanica_4_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/cochlioda-_vulcanica_4_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Cochlioda flower close-up of lip\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Cochlioda flower close-up of lip\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/cochlioda-_vulcanica_5_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/cochlioda-_vulcanica_5_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Cochlioda flower close-up of lip\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Related to Miltonia, Oncidium, and Odontoglossum, this charming mini species is an easy orchid. Cochlioda vulcanica is frequently used in hybridization, cross-bred with orchid relatives to pass on both its hardiness and its beauty. It lives in tropical cloud forests at high elevations in the Andes, where it is pollinated by hummingbirds. The side view [&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":[15,3,19,10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-growers","category-growing","category-mini-orchids","category-orchids-in-the-wild","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","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=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1229,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/1229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}