{"id":2456,"date":"2013-05-21T21:05:37","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T13:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=2456"},"modified":"2013-05-21T21:05:37","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T13:05:37","slug":"red-beaks-unfurling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/21\/red-beaks-unfurling\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Beaks Unfurling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20131705-021.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2408 alignright\" alt=\"red beak orchid leaf\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20131705-021-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20131705-021-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20131705-021.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>We have a number of large colonies of red beak orchids (<em>Pyrorchis nigricans<\/em>) in the forest and the leaves are just unfurling now. \u00a0 I had hoped that we would see some flowers after we did our <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/14\/controlled-burn\/\">controlled burn<\/a> a couple of years ago, but we burnt at the wrong time for these fussy fire orchids. \u00a0They only flower after a hot summer fire, so I have resigned myself to never seeing them on the property, as I don&#8217;t want to experience a summer fire. \u00a0 We have plenty of <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/category\/wildlife\/flowers\/\">other amazing species<\/a> to look at throughout the year so their contribution will be as bush tucker. \u00a0 We will dig up some of the tubers in October\/November and see what they taste like. \u00a0They can be eaten raw or roasted, so they could become a regular item on the menu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a number of large colonies of red beak orchids (Pyrorchis nigricans) in the forest and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,19,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flowers","category-property","category-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20131705-021.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2456"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2461,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456\/revisions\/2461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}