{"id":36067,"date":"2020-08-21T17:04:48","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T01:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=36067"},"modified":"2020-08-26T19:49:27","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T03:49:27","slug":"the-yolk-yellow-orchid-prosthechea-vitellina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/21\/the-yolk-yellow-orchid-prosthechea-vitellina\/","title":{"rendered":"The Yolk-Yellow Orchid, Prosthechea vitellina"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

I’m glad I splurged on this Prosthechea vitellina<\/em> at the Pacific Orchid Expo<\/a> in February. It was on my shopping list as a cool grower<\/a> that I figured would do well here on the Northern California coast. Happily, it’s proven to be a great addition to our garden, and has settled into its new home nicely. It’s now been in bloom for over a month, and new orange and yellow flowers continue to open.<\/p>\n

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

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

Prosthechea vitellina<\/em>, formerly known as<\/a> Encyclia vitellina<\/em>, is native to mountain forests of Mexico and Central America. It lives as high as 8530 feet (2600 m,) where it enjoys cool temps<\/a> and bright light<\/a>. With regular water<\/a>, high humidity, and good air movement<\/a>, this species can thrive. I’ve heard that it doesn’t live for long if it’s kept too warm.<\/p>\n

This gorgeous orchid varies from light orange to scarlet. Mine has a brilliant combination of bright orange and yellow. The species name vitellina<\/em> means “egg yolk yellow” in Latin, describing the sunny flower lip<\/a>. In Mexico, its common name is Manuelitos<\/em>.<\/a> No matter what it’s called, I’m enchanted by it in our garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m glad I splurged on this Prosthechea vitellina at the Pacific Orchid Expo in February. It was on my shopping list as a cool grower that I figured would do well here on the Northern California coast. Happily, it’s proven to be a great addition to our garden, and has settled into its new home […]<\/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":[15,3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-growers","category-growing","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36067","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=36067"}],"version-history":[{"count":49,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36128,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36067\/revisions\/36128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}