{"id":1755,"date":"2020-08-28T09:07:32","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T09:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/?p=1755"},"modified":"2020-08-28T09:07:32","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T09:07:32","slug":"orchid-lessons-by-naresh-swami-tubular-or-connate-orchid-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/orchid-lessons-by-naresh-swami-tubular-or-connate-orchid-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Orchid Lessons by Naresh Swami &#8211; Tubular or connate orchid flowers."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">The general perception about orchid flowers is that of large flowers with spread open bilaterally symmetric sepals and petals. However, there are many orchid flowers that are tubular in characteristic. With either sepals or sepals and petals fused to form a tube like structure with only its apical ends free.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">Botanically the process of fusion of like\/similar parts is termed connation, and those fused parts are described as connate.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1752\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1752\" style=\"width: 433px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Connate1-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1752\" src=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Connate1-2.jpg\" alt=\"Gastrodia sp.\" width=\"433\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Connate1-2.jpg 433w, http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Connate1-2-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1752\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gastrodia sp.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1753\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1753\" style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Connate2-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1753\" src=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Connate2-2.jpg\" alt=\"Cryptochilus sp.\" width=\"430\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Connate2-2.jpg 430w, http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Connate2-2-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1753\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cryptochilus sp.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1754\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1754\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Connate3-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1754\" src=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Connate3-2.jpg\" alt=\"Gastrodia sp.\" width=\"450\" height=\"615\" srcset=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Connate3-2.jpg 450w, http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Connate3-2-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1754\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gastrodia sp.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1756\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1756\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Connate4-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1756\" src=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Connate4-2.jpg\" alt=\"Porpax sp.\" width=\"450\" height=\"619\" srcset=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Connate4-2.jpg 450w, http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Connate4-2-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1756\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Porpax sp.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Post 05 &#8211; 28\/Aug\/2020<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The general perception about orchid flowers is that of large flowers with spread open bilaterally symmetric sepals and petals. However, there are many orchid flowers that are tubular in characteristic. With either sepals or sepals and petals fused to form a tube like structure with only its apical ends free.\u00a0 Botanically the process of fusion &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/orchid-lessons-by-naresh-swami-tubular-or-connate-orchid-flowers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Orchid Lessons by Naresh Swami &#8211; Tubular or connate orchid flowers.<\/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":[370,371,369,376,367,375,368,54,354,373,372,374],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755"}],"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=1755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1757,"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions\/1757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}