{"id":488,"date":"2009-04-05T13:02:23","date_gmt":"2009-04-05T21:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/05\/kefersteinia\/"},"modified":"2009-12-23T19:31:12","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T03:31:12","slug":"kefersteinia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/05\/kefersteinia\/","title":{"rendered":"Kefersteinia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought this little charmer last month at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/08\/pacific-orchid-expo-2009\/\">Pacific Orchid Expo<\/a>. It&#8217;s a Kefersteinia, and it&#8217;s been covered with blooms for over a month. This species flowers frequently, producing a single bloom on each spike. The flowers last about a week, but there&#8217;s a constant resupply of  1 inch (2.5 cm) yellow flowers with white lip and dark red spots.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Kefersteinia flower\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/kefersteinia_parvilabris_1_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/kefersteinia_parvilabris_1_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Kefersteinia flower\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Kefersteinia flower\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/kefersteinia_parvilabris_2_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/kefersteinia_parvilabris_2_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Kefersteinia flower\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Kefersteinia flower side view\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/kefersteinia_parvilabris_3_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/kefersteinia_parvilabris_3_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Kefersteinia flower side view\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This species is native to the rainforests of Colombia, Panama, and Costa Rica. It has thin leaves with little water storage capacity, so the plant needs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/care\/details\/water.html\">regular water<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/care\/details\/humidity.html\">high humidity<\/a>. The last picture shows a flower bud before opening, an indication that the flowers are still coming.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Kefersteinia flower close up\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/kefersteinia_parvilabris_4_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/kefersteinia_parvilabris_4_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Kefersteinia flower close up\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Kefersteinia flower bud\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/kefersteinia_parvilabris_5_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/kefersteinia_parvilabris_5_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Kefersteinia flower bud\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The botanical term for orchids that stay in bloom for extended periods is &#8220;floriferous&#8221; (pronounced FLOOR-if-fur-us), and I hope it continues to describe this little gem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought this little charmer last month at the Pacific Orchid Expo. It&#8217;s a Kefersteinia, and it&#8217;s been covered with blooms for over a month. This species flowers frequently, producing a single bloom on each spike. The flowers last about a week, but there&#8217;s a constant resupply of 1 inch (2.5 cm) yellow flowers with [&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":[18,19,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intermediate-growers","category-mini-orchids","category-photos","category-watering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","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=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1728,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/1728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}