{"id":3235,"date":"2013-06-24T21:49:03","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T13:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=3235"},"modified":"2013-06-24T21:49:03","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T13:49:03","slug":"midge-orchids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/24\/midge-orchids\/","title":{"rendered":"Midge Orchids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130624pm-004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3222\" alt=\"20130624pm 004\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130624pm-004-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130624pm-004-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130624pm-004.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A whole colony of Midge Orchids (<a href=\"http:\/\/florabase.dec.wa.gov.au\/browse\/profile\/10916\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Cyrtostylis huegelii<\/em><\/a>) has started flowering in the forest. \u00a0I found them 10 days ago on the 14th but was not able to identify them until they flowered. \u00a0There are little bumps on the small ground hugging leaves(2-5cm) which closely resemble the leaves of\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/orchids.chookman.id.au\/corybas\/corybas.html\">Corybas<\/a><\/i>\u00a0or Helmet Orchids. \u00a0 They are native to Western Australia and were called\u00a0the\u00a0Midge Orchid, after the small flying insect ( just like our <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/17\/monkey-midge\/\" target=\"_blank\">goat Liponeura<\/a>, who is named after a type of Swiss Mosquito). \u00a0They are common in Jarrah and Marri forests and favour moist and shaded habitat, often forming colonies. They normally flower from July to September.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130615-048.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3019\" alt=\"20130615 048\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130615-048-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130615-048-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130615-048.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A whole colony of Midge Orchids (Cyrtostylis huegelii) has started flowering in the forest. \u00a0I found them 10 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3221,"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":[21,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flowers","category-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130624pm-008.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235","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=3235"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3242,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions\/3242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}