{"id":38346,"date":"2021-07-20T19:16:50","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T03:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=38346"},"modified":"2021-07-27T13:13:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T21:13:04","slug":"my-little-red-sarcochilus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/20\/my-little-red-sarcochilus\/","title":{"rendered":"My Little Red Sarcochilus"},"content":{"rendered":"

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About five years ago, I bought this little Sarcochilus hybrid<\/a> at an orchid show, and it’s been a reliable bloomer. It pumps out brilliant red flowers from a four inch (10 cm) pot for a month or two in late spring and early summer. They’re such a rich red that my cell phone camera can’t do them justice, but I think the color in the photos is impressive nonetheless.<\/p>\n

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When I bought this hybrid, it didn’t have a registered name<\/a>. Instead, the nametag listed two parents, Sarcochilus Kulnura Spice<\/a> and Sarcochilus Fairy<\/a>. Its flower buds and stems start growing with red spots on a white background, but as the buds mature, they turn redder until the white disappears. This plant lives outdoors<\/a> all year. It’s near a close relative, Sarcochilus hartmanii<\/em><\/a>, an Australian species which also thrives on the Northern California coast. That species blooms regularly with crystal white flowers (shown in the final photo below.) It’s a larger plant than the hybrid, and I believe it tolerates our chilly winds better. Still, the small hybrid grows little by little each year. With luck, these dazzling red blossoms will continue to grace our garden for a long time.<\/p>\n

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About five years ago, I bought this little Sarcochilus hybrid at an orchid show, and it’s been a reliable bloomer. It pumps out brilliant red flowers from a four inch (10 cm) pot for a month or two in late spring and early summer. They’re such a rich red that my cell phone camera can’t […]<\/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":[15,19,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-growers","category-mini-orchids","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38346","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=38346"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38414,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38346\/revisions\/38414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}