{"id":319,"date":"2009-01-04T22:32:29","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T06:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/04\/arpophyllum\/"},"modified":"2009-02-25T09:25:34","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T17:25:34","slug":"arpophyllum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/04\/arpophyllum\/","title":{"rendered":"Arpophyllum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking more like a hyacinth than an orchid, Arpophyllum giganteum has dense clusters of pretty purple blooms. This orchid can tolerate a wide range of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/care\/details\/temperature.html\">temperatures<\/a>, but needs cool nights in\u00a0 winter in order to bloom. Here in San Francisco, I grow it outdoors all year with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/care\/details\/light.html\">bright light<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/care\/details\/water.html\">regular water<\/a>. Its native habitat stretches from Mexico to Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/arpophyllum_giganteum_1_640px.jpg\" title=\"Arpophyllum flowers\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/arpophyllum_giganteum_1_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Arpophyllum flowers\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/arpophyllum_giganteum_2_640px.jpg\" title=\"Arpophyllum flowers\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/arpophyllum_giganteum_2_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Arpophyllum flowers\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/arpophyllum_giganteum_3_640px.jpg\" title=\"Arpophyllum flowers\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/arpophyllum_giganteum_3_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Arpophyllum flowers\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Close-up photos show that the mini flowers do resemble other orchids, just upside down. The lip of the flower is on top, and a hint of yellow color shows the location of the pollen. Dozens of 3\/8 inch (1 cm) flowers spiral around a spike that can reach 16 inches (40 cm) in length. Dave photographed a particularly nice specimen a few years ago at the San Francisco Orchid Show, shown in the final picture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/arpophyllum_giganteum_4_640px.jpg\" title=\"Arpophyllum flowers\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/arpophyllum_giganteum_4_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Arpophyllum flowers\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/arpophyllum_giganteum_5_640px.jpg\" title=\"Arpophyllum flowers close-up\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/arpophyllum_giganteum_5_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Arpophyllum flowers close-up\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/arpophyllum_giganteum_480px.jpg\" title=\"Arpophyllum orchid\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/arpophyllum_giganteum_480px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Arpophyllum orchid\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking more like a hyacinth than an orchid, Arpophyllum giganteum has dense clusters of pretty purple blooms. This orchid can tolerate a wide range of temperatures, but needs cool nights in\u00a0 winter in order to bloom. Here in San Francisco, I grow it outdoors all year with bright light and regular water. Its native habitat [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-growing","category-intermediate-growers","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","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=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}