{"id":745,"date":"2009-09-06T21:59:30","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T05:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/06\/more-from-the-conservatory-of-flowers\/"},"modified":"2010-05-02T08:18:43","modified_gmt":"2010-05-02T16:18:43","slug":"more-from-the-conservatory-of-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/06\/more-from-the-conservatory-of-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"More from the Conservatory of Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"

As promised, here are some additional photos from our trip to San Francisco’s Conservatory of Flowers<\/a>. I’ll start with more warm growing orchids, like these 2 gorgeous Paphs<\/a>, followed by 2 colorful members of the Oncidium<\/a> family. Among its thousands of tropical plants and flowers, the Conservatory has a resident gecko population to help with pest control<\/a>. These beautiful, un-eaten blooms are proof that the geckoes are on the job.<\/p>\n

\"Lady<\/a>\"Lady<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Butterfly<\/a>\"Wilsonara<\/a><\/p>\n

When we started to sweat in the displays with warm growing plants, it was great to step into the Highland Tropics Gallery to cool off. The Conservatory has a large collection of cool growing orchids, native to tropical mountain rainforests. These extraordinary members of the Masdevallia<\/a> family enjoy the cool temperatures. Some are full of color, while others gleam in translucent white.<\/p>\n

\"Masdevallia<\/a>\"Dracula<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Masdevallia<\/a>\"Masdevallia<\/a><\/p>\n

I’ve saved the strangest flowers for last. Among the more unusual blooms are 2 small, cool growing Masdevallia relatives. The first photo shows a tiny Scaphosepalum flower, seemingly in flight. The second photo may look like a fuzzy caterpillar, but it’s actually a group of miniature Stelis flowers. Finally, a large, weird (non-orchid) flower is known as the Bat Flower, or Cat’s Whiskers. They’re all part of the Conservatory’s remarkable displays.<\/p>\n

\"Scaphosepalum<\/a>\"Stelis<\/a>\"Bat<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As promised, here are some additional photos from our trip to San Francisco’s Conservatory of Flowers. I’ll start with more warm growing orchids, like these 2 gorgeous Paphs, followed by 2 colorful members of the Oncidium family. Among its thousands of tropical plants and flowers, the Conservatory has a resident gecko population to help with […]<\/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":[13,15,19,6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botanical-gardens","category-cool-growers","category-mini-orchids","category-photos","category-warm-growers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745","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=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3287,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions\/3287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}