{"id":4363,"date":"2024-10-17T11:13:41","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T00:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/?p=4363"},"modified":"2024-10-17T11:13:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T00:13:41","slug":"orchid-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2024\/10\/17\/orchid-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Orchid Time."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A trip into the box\/ironbark bush at Glenmaggie to check out the orchid situation after a rather dry time. The Dotted Sun Orchid, Thelymitra ixioides is having a good season with many flower spikes to be seen.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix34\/thel1.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"952\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix34\/thel2.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"858\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Somewhat of a surprise was this lovely Caladenia carnea.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix34\/pinkm.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"615\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Caladenia catenata, usually very frequent, were a bit sparse.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix34\/catenata.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"662\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As were the flying ducks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix34\/duck1.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix34\/duck2.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"813\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nice to see were a number of Purplish Beard-orchids, Calochilus robertsonii.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix34\/calo2.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"937\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix34\/calo4.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"863\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix34\/calo3.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"670\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In this patch of bush the green\/white form can also sometimes be found.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix34\/calog.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"1031\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trip into the box\/ironbark bush at Glenmaggie to check out the orchid situation after a rather dry time. The Dotted Sun Orchid, Thelymitra ixioides is having a good season with many flower spikes to be seen. Somewhat of a surprise was this lovely Caladenia carnea. Caladenia catenata, usually very frequent, were a bit sparse. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2024\/10\/17\/orchid-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Orchid Time.<\/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-4363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4363","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=4363"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4371,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4363\/revisions\/4371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}