{"id":714,"date":"2009-08-11T19:56:22","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T03:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/11\/bulbophyllum\/"},"modified":"2010-03-10T19:04:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T03:04:27","slug":"bulbophyllum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/11\/bulbophyllum\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulbophyllum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This little beauty belongs to the enormous Bulbophyllum genus of the orchid family. Its bright orange flowers have dark red spots that inspired its scientific name, Bulbophyllum pardalotum, which means spotted like a leopard. The small flowers are 3\/4 inch (2 cm) across.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Bulbophyllum flower\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/bulbophyllum_pardalotum_1_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/bulbophyllum_pardalotum_1_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Bulbophyllum flower\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Bulbophyllum flower\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/bulbophyllum_pardalotum_2_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/bulbophyllum_pardalotum_2_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Bulbophyllum flower\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Bulbophyllum flower close up\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/bulbophyllum_pardalotum_3_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/bulbophyllum_pardalotum_3_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Bulbophyllum flower close up\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This species is native to the Philippines, where it&#8217;s a neighbor to this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/07\/oberonia\/\">Oberonia<\/a> on the island of Luzon. The flowers open during the day and close at night, and last about a week and a half.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Bulbophyllum flower\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/bulbophyllum_pardalotum_4_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/bulbophyllum_pardalotum_4_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Bulbophyllum flower\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Bulbophyllum flower\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/bulbophyllum_pardalotum_5_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/bulbophyllum_pardalotum_5_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Bulbophyllum flower\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Bulbophyllum genus contains hundreds of fascinating and unusual species. Some are enormous, others microscopic. Many have bizarrely shaped flowers. This spotted species doesn&#8217;t have a scent, but some in the genus produce the smell of rotting meat to attract flies to pollinate them. Although these aren&#8217;t commonly offered for sale, it&#8217;s reason enough to check the fragrance of an orchid before you buy it.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Bulbophyllum flower\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/bulbophyllum_pardalotum_6_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/bulbophyllum_pardalotum_6_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Bulbophyllum flower\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Bulbophyllum plant\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/bulbophyllum_pardalotum_7_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/bulbophyllum_pardalotum_7_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Bulbophyllum plant\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This little beauty belongs to the enormous Bulbophyllum genus of the orchid family. Its bright orange flowers have dark red spots that inspired its scientific name, Bulbophyllum pardalotum, which means spotted like a leopard. The small flowers are 3\/4 inch (2 cm) across. This species is native to the Philippines, where it&#8217;s a neighbor to [&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":[19,6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mini-orchids","category-photos","category-warm-growers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714","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=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2683,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions\/2683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}