{"id":1762,"date":"2020-09-04T09:06:22","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T09:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/?p=1762"},"modified":"2020-09-04T09:06:22","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T09:06:22","slug":"orchid-lessons-by-naresh-swami-2-spurred-orchid-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/orchid-lessons-by-naresh-swami-2-spurred-orchid-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Orchid Lessons by Naresh Swami &#8211; 2-spurred orchid flowers."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">Spur is not an uncommon characteristic in orchid flowers. It is defined as the hollow slender extension from the base of the lip. The purpose of the spur is to hold nectar and it varies in shape and size, solitary across all genera. However, very rarely a few orchid genera flowers possess 2-spurs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s2\">Presented here is a <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Satyrium sp. and its Alba form.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1764\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1764\" style=\"width: 405px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BL1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1764\" src=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BL1.jpg\" alt=\"Satyrium sp.\" width=\"405\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BL1.jpg 405w, http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BL1-187x300.jpg 187w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1764\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Satyrium sp.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1765\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1765\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BL2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1765\" src=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BL2.jpg\" alt=\"Satyrium sp.\" width=\"450\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BL2.jpg 450w, http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BL2-238x300.jpg 238w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1765\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Satyrium sp.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Post 07 &#8211; 04\/September\/2020<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spur is not an uncommon characteristic in orchid flowers. It is defined as the hollow slender extension from the base of the lip. The purpose of the spur is to hold nectar and it varies in shape and size, solitary across all genera. However, very rarely a few orchid genera flowers possess 2-spurs. Presented here &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/orchid-lessons-by-naresh-swami-2-spurred-orchid-flowers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Orchid Lessons by Naresh Swami &#8211; 2-spurred 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":[379,54,354,383,384,382,380,381],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762"}],"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=1762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1766,"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions\/1766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}