{"id":3567,"date":"2021-10-29T11:47:13","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T00:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/?p=3567"},"modified":"2021-10-29T11:48:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T00:48:38","slug":"orchids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2021\/10\/29\/orchids\/","title":{"rendered":"Orchids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After good rainfall throughout spring, terrestrial orchids are blooming in large numbers in the foothill forest. On a sunny morning, five species were photographed on a north facing slope, with Diuris sulphurea and Thelymitra ixioides putting on a great show.<\/p>\n<p>Tiger or Hornet Orchid, Diuris sulphurea.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/orchids\/sul2.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"827\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Spotted Sun-orchid, Thelymitra ixioides.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/orchids\/ixi5p.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"993\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/orchids\/ixi4.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"849\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Two species of Beard-orchid were in flower, the Purplish Beard-orchid, Calochilus robertsonii, and the less common Red Beard-orchid, Calochilus paludosus.<\/p>\n<p>Calochilus robertsonii.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/orchids\/rob1.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"821\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/orchids\/rob2.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"597\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Calochilus paludosus.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/orchids\/pal3.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"610\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/orchids\/pal4.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"549\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And tucked away in some loose vegetation where it was hard to get a snap, a small group of the large Duck Orchid, Caleana major, always good to find.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/orchids\/duck.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"869\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After good rainfall throughout spring, terrestrial orchids are blooming in large numbers in the foothill forest. On a sunny morning, five species were photographed on a north facing slope, with Diuris sulphurea and Thelymitra ixioides putting on a great show. Tiger or Hornet Orchid, Diuris sulphurea. Spotted Sun-orchid, Thelymitra ixioides. Two species of Beard-orchid were &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2021\/10\/29\/orchids\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Orchids<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}