{"id":36653,"date":"2020-11-17T20:45:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T04:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=36653"},"modified":"2020-11-23T18:17:52","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T02:17:52","slug":"a-treasure-trove-of-central-african-orchids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/17\/a-treasure-trove-of-central-african-orchids\/","title":{"rendered":"A Treasure Trove of Central African Orchids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orchid-africa.net\/INDEX.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">There&#8217;s a treasure trove of Central African orchids at www.Orchid-Africa.net.<\/a> This growing database offers a look at some uncommon species, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orchid-africa.net\/especes.asp?page=1&amp;checkPhoto=0&amp;insitu=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">and it features lots of pictures<\/a>. Central African orchids aren&#8217;t as well known as their relatives from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-13861843\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Madagascar<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-14094760\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">South Africa<\/a>, but they should be. They include captivating members of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/17\/angraecums-the-shining-stars-of-the-orchid-world\/\">Angraecum<\/a> family, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/27\/bulbophyllums-are-some-of-the-weirdest-orchids\/\">Bulbophyllums<\/a>, Eulophias, Habenarias, Polystachyas, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/04\/vanilla-valentine\/\">Vanillas<\/a>, and much more. The database is being compiled by African and Belgian scientists to assist with conservation projects. They&#8217;re also growing thousands of Central African orchids in shadehouses in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-13376333\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gabon<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-13146029\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cameroon<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-13317174\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Equatorial Guinea<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-14093493\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9<\/a>. In addition to the valuable science they&#8217;re conducting, they&#8217;ve discovered over 40 new species from the area. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orchid-africa.net\/links.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Check out their related links, too, to explore fascinating African flora.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a treasure trove of Central African orchids at www.Orchid-Africa.net. This growing database offers a look at some uncommon species, and it features lots of pictures. Central African orchids aren&#8217;t as well known as their relatives from Madagascar and South Africa, but they should be. They include captivating members of the Angraecum family, Bulbophyllums, Eulophias, [&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":[21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36653","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=36653"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36762,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36653\/revisions\/36762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}