{"id":5474,"date":"2010-11-05T12:35:35","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T20:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=5474"},"modified":"2011-07-14T14:37:45","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T22:37:45","slug":"rare-australian-orchid-relocated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/05\/rare-australian-orchid-relocated\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Australian Orchid Blooms in Cultivation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2010\/11\/05\/3058717.htm?site=newcastle\" target=\"_blank\">Australian scientists have successfully cultivated the bizarre Eastern Underground Orchid for the first time<\/a>. Australia is known for its fascinating flora and fauna, but this endangered orchid may be the one of the most bizarre plant species in the world. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rhizanthella_slateri\" target=\"_blank\">Rhizanthella<\/a> lives almost entirely underground, and only emerges above ground when it flowers. Without leaves, it grows as an underground <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rhizome\" target=\"_blank\">rhizome<\/a>, drawing nutrients from decaying leaves on the Eucalyptus forest floor. They&#8217;re usually found by accident during digging or construction.\u00a0 Scientists are excited by these first Rhizanthella blooms in cultivation, as you can see in this Newcastle, Australia news story <em>(update: video has been removed)<\/em> &#8211;<\/p>\n<pre id=\"line288\"><object style=\"width: 400px; height: 270px;\" classid=\"clsid:6bf52a52-394a-11d3-b153-00c04f79faa6\" width=\"400\" height=\"270\" codebase=\"http:\/\/activex.microsoft.com\/activex\/controls\/mplayer\/en\/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701\"><param name=\"autostart\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"fullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"stretchtofit\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"url\" value=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/reslib\/201011\/r668316_4842530.asx\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/reslib\/201011\/r668316_4842530.asx\" \/><embed style=\"width: 400px; height: 270px;\" type=\"application\/x-mplayer2\" width=\"400\" height=\"270\" src=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/reslib\/201011\/r668316_4842530.asx\" url=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/reslib\/201011\/r668316_4842530.asx\" stretchtofit=\"true\" fullscreen=\"true\" autostart=\"false\"><\/embed><\/object><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian scientists have successfully cultivated the bizarre Eastern Underground Orchid for the first time. Australia is known for its fascinating flora and fauna, but this endangered orchid may be the one of the most bizarre plant species in the world. Rhizanthella lives almost entirely underground, and only emerges above ground when it flowers. Without leaves, [&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":[21,22,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","category-in-the-news","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5474","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=5474"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9248,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5474\/revisions\/9248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}