{"id":38028,"date":"2021-06-07T18:57:41","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T02:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=38028"},"modified":"2021-06-13T19:47:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T03:47:07","slug":"a-lovely-little-leptotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/07\/a-lovely-little-leptotes\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lovely Little Leptotes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My indoor orchid shelves don’t have much room to spare, so if I buy a warm grower<\/a>, it’s got to be a miniature. At the 2020 Pacific Orchid Expo<\/a>, I spotted this little charmer for sale. Leptotes pohlitinocoi<\/em> has a name that I can’t pronounce, but this small Cattleya<\/a> relative is definitely worth the shelf space.<\/p>\n

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This species is native to Brazil. Its pink and lavender flowers have a light, spicy fragrance. The skinny, pencil-like leaves indicate that it wants very bright conditions<\/a>, including some full sun<\/a>. Let it dry well between waterings<\/a>. Despite our foggy, chilly spring, mine received enough warmth<\/a> and light to bloom this year. So far, its seven flowers have lasted over six weeks.
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It would be nice if mine eventually grew as large as the plant in the second to last photo, which is from Pacific Orchid Expo 2009. The final photo shows a closely related species, Leptotes bicolor<\/em>, which has white petals and sepals. If you have room in your collection for a little Leptotes, they’re delightful and easy to grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My indoor orchid shelves don’t have much room to spare, so if I buy a warm grower, it’s got to be a miniature. At the 2020 Pacific Orchid Expo, I spotted this little charmer for sale. Leptotes pohlitinocoi has a name that I can’t pronounce, but this small Cattleya relative is definitely worth the shelf […]<\/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":[12,3,19,6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fragrant-orchids","category-growing","category-mini-orchids","category-photos","category-warm-growers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38028","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=38028"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38096,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38028\/revisions\/38096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}