{"id":1886,"date":"2020-10-27T06:16:57","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T06:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/?p=1886"},"modified":"2020-10-27T06:16:57","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T06:16:57","slug":"orchid-lessons-by-naresh-swami-monstrous-or-freak-forms-of-orchid-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/orchid-lessons-by-naresh-swami-monstrous-or-freak-forms-of-orchid-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Orchid Lessons by Naresh Swami &#8211; Monstrous or freak forms of orchid flowers."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">Orchids are the most fascinating plants in the entire plant kingdom. Even after more than a century of detailed study, many characteristics and behaviours of orchid plants are not documented or studied in detail.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">Orchid blooms appear with duplicate floral parts &#8211; 2 lips, 2 spurs, 4 petals, 6 sepals, 2 columns etc. In some cases duplication of all flower parts happens in the same flower, but more frequently only one or two parts get duplicated. Interestingly, not all the flowers on an inflorescence show this variation, maybe a single flower to a few flowers show this freak appearance. This is due to mutations during the flower development.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">Mutations in flowers are caused due to a limited gene-pool or some environmental factors. However, this phenomenon is so rare that the chances of finding an orchid plant with monstrous or freak flowers are 1 in 10,000 plants.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1887\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1887\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/MFOF2710a-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1887\" src=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/MFOF2710a-2.jpg\" alt=\"Habenaria sp.\" width=\"450\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/MFOF2710a-2.jpg 450w, http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/MFOF2710a-2-236x300.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1887\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Habenaria sp.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1888\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1888\" style=\"width: 433px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/MFOF2710b-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1888\" src=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/MFOF2710b-2.jpg\" alt=\"Pholidota sp.\" width=\"433\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/MFOF2710b-2.jpg 433w, http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/MFOF2710b-2-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1888\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pholidota sp.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1889\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1889\" style=\"width: 447px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/MFOF2710c-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1889\" src=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/MFOF2710c-2.jpg\" alt=\"Herminium sp.\" width=\"447\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/MFOF2710c-2.jpg 447w, http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/MFOF2710c-2-206x300.jpg 206w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 447px) 100vw, 447px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1889\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Herminium sp.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Post 23 &#8211; 27\/October\/202<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orchids are the most fascinating plants in the entire plant kingdom. Even after more than a century of detailed study, many characteristics and behaviours of orchid plants are not documented or studied in detail.\u00a0 Orchid blooms appear with duplicate floral parts &#8211; 2 lips, 2 spurs, 4 petals, 6 sepals, 2 columns etc. In some &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/orchid-lessons-by-naresh-swami-monstrous-or-freak-forms-of-orchid-flowers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Orchid Lessons by Naresh Swami &#8211; Monstrous or freak forms of 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":[471,474,469,470,472,54,473,354],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886"}],"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=1886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1890,"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions\/1890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}