{"id":2096,"date":"2021-01-05T03:38:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T03:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/?p=2096"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:38:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T03:38:26","slug":"orchid-lessons-by-naresh-swami-hidden-colour-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/orchid-lessons-by-naresh-swami-hidden-colour-patterns\/","title":{"rendered":"Orchid Lessons by Naresh Swami &#8211; Hidden colour patterns."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Flower characteristics are mainly to attract pollinators. Important and noticeable features include colouration of sepals and petals, position of the lip and odour (only in a few species).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, many orchid species have evolved to great extent in having hidden or unnoticeable features (to human eyes) like colour patterns\/spots on its anther cap and base of the lip to allure the pollinators deep inside the flowers to make effective pollination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"512\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/OLBNSHF_0100-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2097\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/OLBNSHF_0100-2.jpg 512w, https:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/OLBNSHF_0100-2-300x264.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><figcaption>Dendrobium sp.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"526\" src=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/OLBNSHF_3913-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2098\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/OLBNSHF_3913-2.jpg 450w, https:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/OLBNSHF_3913-2-257x300.jpg 257w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><figcaption>Goodyera sp.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Post 46 &#8211; 05\/January\/2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flower characteristics are mainly to attract pollinators. Important and noticeable features include colouration of sepals and petals, position of the lip and odour (only in a few species).&nbsp; However, many orchid species have evolved to great extent in having hidden or unnoticeable features (to human eyes) like colour patterns\/spots on its anther cap and base &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/orchid-lessons-by-naresh-swami-hidden-colour-patterns\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Orchid Lessons by Naresh Swami &#8211; Hidden colour patterns.<\/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":[581,54,354,439],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2099,"href":"https:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions\/2099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}