{"id":1862,"date":"2020-10-15T09:27:01","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T09:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/?p=1862"},"modified":"2020-10-15T09:27:01","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T09:27:01","slug":"orchid-lessons-by-naresh-swami-bilobed-spur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/orchid-lessons-by-naresh-swami-bilobed-spur\/","title":{"rendered":"Orchid Lessons by Naresh Swami &#8211; Bilobed spur."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The apex (point away from its attachment) of the spur is generally pointed, round, obtuse, or rarely truncated. However, few orchid flowers produce spurs with its apex bilobed (also referred to as 2-lobed).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The reasons that make the apex of the spur unique is a topic least researched. However, it has to be believed that this characteristic is related to certain pollinator behaviour.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1863\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1863\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/OLBNSBLS1-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1863\" src=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/OLBNSBLS1-2.jpg\" alt=\"Anoectochilus sp.\" width=\"450\" height=\"588\" srcset=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/OLBNSBLS1-2.jpg 450w, http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/OLBNSBLS1-2-230x300.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anoectochilus sp.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1864\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1864\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/OLBNSBLS2a-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1864\" src=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/OLBNSBLS2a-2.jpg\" alt=\"Anoectochilus sp.\" width=\"450\" height=\"635\" srcset=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/OLBNSBLS2a-2.jpg 450w, http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/OLBNSBLS2a-2-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1864\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anoectochilus sp.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1865\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1865\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/OLBNSBLS3-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1865\" src=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/OLBNSBLS3-2.jpg\" alt=\"Herpysma sp.\" width=\"450\" height=\"649\" srcset=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/OLBNSBLS3-2.jpg 450w, http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/OLBNSBLS3-2-208x300.jpg 208w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1865\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Herpysma sp.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1866\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1866\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/OLBNSBLS4-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1866\" src=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/OLBNSBLS4-2.jpg\" alt=\"Herpysma sp.\" width=\"450\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/OLBNSBLS4-2.jpg 450w, http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/OLBNSBLS4-2-210x300.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1866\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Herpysma sp.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Post 19 &#8211; 15\/October\/2020<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The apex (point away from its attachment) of the spur is generally pointed, round, obtuse, or rarely truncated. However, few orchid flowers produce spurs with its apex bilobed (also referred to as 2-lobed).\u00a0 The reasons that make the apex of the spur unique is a topic least researched. However, it has to be believed that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/orchid-lessons-by-naresh-swami-bilobed-spur\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Orchid Lessons by Naresh Swami &#8211; Bilobed spur.<\/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":[449,448,110,453,447,450,452,451,54,354],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862"}],"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=1862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1867,"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions\/1867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}