{"id":40331,"date":"2022-05-09T14:58:16","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T22:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=40331"},"modified":"2022-05-15T19:23:16","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T03:23:16","slug":"a-weird-coralroot-orchid-grows-in-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/09\/a-weird-coralroot-orchid-grows-in-austin\/","title":{"rendered":"A Weird Coralroot Orchid Grows in Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Corallorhiza<\/a>\"Corallorhiza<\/a>\"Corallorhiza<\/a>
\nThanks to AboutOrchids reader Margaret Barnett for these fascinating photos of a wild, native orchid growing in Austin, Texas. This may look like bright yellow asparagus, but it’s an orchid. Corallorhiza orchids are commonly called Coralroots due their thick, coral-shaped rhizomes. This specimen lives beneath an oak tree, hidden underground, until its strange flowers spring from the soil.<\/p>\n

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

Coralroots are leafless, and don’t photosynthesize. Instead, they take nutrients from fungi in the ground, a relationship called myco-heterotrophy<\/a>. This plant is an unusual yellow color variety. Its springtime bloom may belong to Corallorhiza wisteriana<\/em>, the Spring Coralroot<\/a>, or Corallorhiza striata<\/em>, the Striped Coralroot<\/a>. There are two other Coralroots native to Texas, but Corallorhiza maculata<\/em>, the Spotted Coralroot<\/a>, blooms in summer, and Corallorhiza odontorhiza<\/em>, the Autumn Coralroot<\/a>, in autumn. Whichever it is, it’s a marvelous reminder that the weird and wonderful orchid world is full of surprises. Photos courtesy of Margaret Barnett.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to AboutOrchids reader Margaret Barnett for these fascinating photos of a wild, native orchid growing in Austin, Texas. This may look like bright yellow asparagus, but it’s an orchid. Corallorhiza orchids are commonly called Coralroots due their thick, coral-shaped rhizomes. This specimen lives beneath an oak tree, hidden underground, until its strange flowers spring […]<\/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":[10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orchids-in-the-wild","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40331","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=40331"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40384,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40331\/revisions\/40384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}