{"id":9361,"date":"2011-07-28T15:29:05","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T23:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=9361"},"modified":"2011-10-16T09:35:41","modified_gmt":"2011-10-16T17:35:41","slug":"the-beautiful-tricks-of-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/28\/the-beautiful-tricks-of-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beautiful Tricks of Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you don&#8217;t have your own electron microscope, you&#8217;ll enjoy this entertaining video from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TED<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/punctuated-equilibrium\/2011\/jul\/12\/1\" target=\"_blank\">an accompanying article in the UK&#8217;s <em>Guardian<\/em><\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/speakers\/jonathan_drori.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Drori<\/a> showcases some of the most incredible pollination strategies among the world&#8217;s quarter-million flowering plants. Naturally, orchids are some of the stars of the show. With dazzling photos, his talk highlights <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/12\/darwins-orchid\/\">Darwin&#8217;s Orchid<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/oncidium.html\">Oncidiums<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/paphiopedilum.html\">Lady Slippers<\/a>, and many more. The floral trickery includes ultraviolet patterns, insect mimicry, landing strips to guide pollinators, and even a strangely mammal-like Philodendron from Brazil (that last one starts at the 9 minute mark.) Flower lovers will find this a beautiful and fascinating talk on these evolutionary miracles.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"430\" height=\"306\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YmVZ8zXJO48?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"430\" height=\"306\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YmVZ8zXJO48?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you don&#8217;t have your own electron microscope, you&#8217;ll enjoy this entertaining video from TED and an accompanying article in the UK&#8217;s Guardian. Jonathan Drori showcases some of the most incredible pollination strategies among the world&#8217;s quarter-million flowering plants. Naturally, orchids are some of the stars of the show. With dazzling photos, his talk highlights [&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":[17,22,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-gardening","category-in-the-news","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9361","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=9361"}],"version-history":[{"count":44,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10069,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9361\/revisions\/10069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}