{"id":167103,"date":"2022-09-14T21:22:36","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T02:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=167103"},"modified":"2022-09-28T16:40:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T21:40:33","slug":"red-red-red-red-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/red-red-red-red-red\/","title":{"rendered":"Red red red red red"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of the plants I ordered in the spring from Sunset Valley Orchids<\/a> bloomed this week. It’s a very red “Mini-Catt,” i.e., a miniature Cattleya<\/em>. The flower is two inches wide on a plant about seven inches tall. There’s no fragrance that I can detect, but with color like that I’m not going to complain. Click on the picture to see it with better color (WordPress makes colors duller when it reformats images); right-click and open the link in a new window to see it much larger than life size.<\/p>\n

Exactly what the plant is, is complicated. It was listed as “SVO 9263 – Pot. NEW HYBRID (Slc. Virginia Dickey ‘ Diamond Orchids’ AM\/AOS x Pot. Higher Multiplier ‘Diamond Orchids’ HCC\/AOS).” “Pot.” is short for “Potinara<\/em>,” a multigeneric hybrid involving Brassavola<\/em>, Cattleya<\/em>, Laelia<\/em> and Sophronitis<\/em>; “Slc.” is “Sophrolaeliocattleya<\/em>,” with Sophronitis<\/em>, Laelia<\/em> and Cattleya<\/em>. However, taxonomists are always up to mischief, abruptly moving species from one genus to another, lumping some genera together and splitting others into pieces. Sophronitis<\/em> has recently been placed within the Cattleya<\/em> genus, and the other genera have been tampered with as well. Calling my plant a Potinara<\/em> is probably inaccurate now, but it’s convenient, and I don’t know what the proper name would be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the plants I ordered in the spring from Sunset Valley Orchids bloomed this week. It’s a very red “Mini-Catt,” i.e., a miniature Cattleya. The flower is two inches wide on a plant about seven inches tall. There’s no fragrance that I can detect, but with color like that I’m not going to complain. … Continue reading “Red red red red red”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[692,701,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botany","category-orchids","category-photo-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-Htd","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167103"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167389,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167103\/revisions\/167389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}