{"id":41078,"date":"2022-08-23T20:48:42","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T04:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=41078"},"modified":"2022-08-29T16:03:59","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T00:03:59","slug":"rhapsody-in-blue-spectacular-rare-orchid-found-during-surveys-in-west-papua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/23\/rhapsody-in-blue-spectacular-rare-orchid-found-during-surveys-in-west-papua\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhapsody in Blue \u2013 Spectacular Rare Orchid Found During Surveys in West Papua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tropical forests on Waigeo Island, which is off the western end of New Guinea, are famous for <a href=\"https:\/\/ebird.org\/species\/wbopar1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wilson&#8217;s Bird of Paradise<\/a> and other extraordinary plants and animals. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fauna-flora.org\/news\/rhapsody-in-blue-spectacular-rare-orchid-found-during-surveys-in-west-papua\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Recently, a scientific expedition there cataloged 80 rare plants, including the deep sky-blue flowers of <em>Dendrobium azureum<\/em>.<\/a> The species was scientifically discovered in 2013, after a dried specimen sent to the Natural History Museum in London nearly a century ago was re-found and finally identified. This stunning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/dendrobium.html\">Dendrobium<\/a> is one of only a few <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/07\/true-blue-orchids\/\">true-blue orchids<\/a>. It will turn a lot of heads, and hopefully encourage the protection of this extraordinary area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kew.org\/read-and-watch\/evelyn-cheesman-blue-orchid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">To learn more about <em>Dendrobium azureum<\/em>, check out Kew.org.<\/a> It includes the story of British entomologist Lucy Evelyn Cheesman, who collected the original specimen sent to London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tropical forests on Waigeo Island, which is off the western end of New Guinea, are famous for Wilson&#8217;s Bird of Paradise and other extraordinary plants and animals. Recently, a scientific expedition there cataloged 80 rare plants, including the deep sky-blue flowers of Dendrobium azureum. The species was scientifically discovered in 2013, after a dried [&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":[21,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41078","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=41078"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41210,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41078\/revisions\/41210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}