{"id":1746,"date":"2020-08-25T07:39:07","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T07:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/?p=1746"},"modified":"2020-08-25T07:39:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T07:39:07","slug":"orchid-lessons-by-naresh-swami-translucent-pseudobulb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/orchid-lessons-by-naresh-swami-translucent-pseudobulb\/","title":{"rendered":"Orchid Lessons By Naresh Swami &#8211; Translucent pseudobulb."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">While I was in the 6th class, our Biology teacher demonstrated an experiment to help us understand the way in which\u00a0water is transported in a plant, with the help of Balsam plants and coloured water. A Balsam plant is placed in a beaker filled with coloured water. After some time we saw the coloured water slowly rising up the stem. She further explained that the Balsam plants are particularly used because they have translucent stems, so that we can see the coloured water moving up the stem. Hence, whenever I think about the word \u201ctranslucent\u201d, I remember those Balsam plants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">However, it is not just the Balsam plants that have translucent characteristics, a few orchids also have this unique characteristic, even though the phenomenon is very rare.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">Presented here is Pholidota protracta Hook.f., with its translucent pseudobulb.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Post 04 &#8211; 25\/Aug\/2020<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1747\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1747\" style=\"width: 358px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/PPTRL1a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1747\" src=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/PPTRL1a.jpg\" alt=\"Pholidota protracta Hook.f.\" width=\"358\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/PPTRL1a.jpg 358w, http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/PPTRL1a-165x300.jpg 165w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 358px) 100vw, 358px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1747\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pholidota protracta Hook.f.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1748\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1748\" style=\"width: 414px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/PPTRL3a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1748\" src=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/PPTRL3a.jpg\" alt=\"Pholidota protracta Hook.f.\" width=\"414\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/PPTRL3a.jpg 414w, http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/PPTRL3a-191x300.jpg 191w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1748\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pholidota protracta Hook.f.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was in the 6th class, our Biology teacher demonstrated an experiment to help us understand the way in which\u00a0water is transported in a plant, with the help of Balsam plants and coloured water. A Balsam plant is placed in a beaker filled with coloured water. After some time we saw the coloured water &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/orchid-lessons-by-naresh-swami-translucent-pseudobulb\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Orchid Lessons By Naresh Swami &#8211; Translucent pseudobulb.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[54,354,67,364,366,365],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1749,"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions\/1749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}