{"id":33210,"date":"2019-09-08T09:36:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T17:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=33210"},"modified":"2019-09-15T14:20:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T22:20:11","slug":"deceptive-new-zealand-orchids-pretend-that-theyre-mushrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/08\/deceptive-new-zealand-orchids-pretend-that-theyre-mushrooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Deceptive New Zealand Orchids Pretend That They&#8217;re Mushrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/national\/programmes\/ourchangingworld\/audio\/201825731\/when-orchids-smell-like-mushrooms-a-tale-of-botanical-deceit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Radio New Zealand<\/em> exposes a tale of botanical deceit.<\/a>\u00a0Corybas, also known as Spider Orchids, are strange little plants which inhabit the New Zealand forest floor. Humans can&#8217;t smell their mushroom-scented blooms, but fungus gnats can. They&#8217;re tricked into pollinating the flowers. To study how that works, orchid researcher Carlos Lehnebach converted his bathtub into an experimental greenhouse. He&#8217;s discovered that a single species of orchid is, in reality, five separate species. He&#8217;s also found that each one has a slightly different scent, and attracts a different type of fungus gnat. Check out the short video below to see the flowers and insect.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The orchid flower and the fungus gnat\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0tVNEIfFIuw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radio New Zealand exposes a tale of botanical deceit.\u00a0Corybas, also known as Spider Orchids, are strange little plants which inhabit the New Zealand forest floor. Humans can&#8217;t smell their mushroom-scented blooms, but fungus gnats can. They&#8217;re tricked into pollinating the flowers. To study how that works, orchid researcher Carlos Lehnebach converted his bathtub into an [&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":[15,12,22,19,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-growers","category-fragrant-orchids","category-in-the-news","category-mini-orchids","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33210","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=33210"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33296,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33210\/revisions\/33296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}