{"id":44896,"date":"2023-11-21T21:29:04","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T05:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=44896"},"modified":"2023-11-28T15:04:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:05","slug":"would-you-like-to-name-an-orchid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/21\/would-you-like-to-name-an-orchid\/","title":{"rendered":"Would You Like to Name an Orchid?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Would you like to name a new orchid? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aos.org\/news-and-events\/news\/2023\/petals-of-generosity.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The American Orchid Society (AOS) has teamed up with expert growers who will let you name a new hybrid for a $1000 USD donation to the AOS.<\/a> It&#8217;s the perfect gift for yourself or another orchid lover. The donations will be used to fund conservation, research, and education. Your chosen name will be officially registered with the UK&#8217;s Royal Horticultural Society. To start, go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.aos.org\/donate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AOS donation page<\/a>, and choose &#8220;Petals of Generosity: Legacy Orchid Program&#8221; from the &#8220;Distribution&#8221; field. You can also contact the AOS directly at TheAOS@aos.org, or call 305-740-2010 for more info. Hybrids available include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/cattleya.html\">Cattleyas<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/cymbidium.html\">Cymbidiums<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/phalaenopsis.html\">Phals<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/paphiopedilum.html\">Paphs<\/a>, Catasetums, and more. This is a limited time offer. And just in case you can&#8217;t think of a good name, I&#8217;ll suggest that Cattleya Marc Cohen would sound really great.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would you like to name a new orchid? The American Orchid Society (AOS) has teamed up with expert growers who will let you name a new hybrid for a $1000 USD donation to the AOS. It&#8217;s the perfect gift for yourself or another orchid lover. The donations will be used to fund conservation, research, and [&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-44896","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\/44896","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=44896"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44929,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44896\/revisions\/44929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}