{"id":5633,"date":"2013-12-22T18:55:10","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T10:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=5633"},"modified":"2014-01-30T15:27:07","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T07:27:07","slug":"christmas-colours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/22\/christmas-colours\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Colours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131223-019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5582\" alt=\"20131223 019\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131223-019-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131223-019-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131223-019.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Red and Green flowers on our Tall Kangaroo Paws (<i><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anigozanthos_flavidus\">Anigozanthos flavidus<\/a>)\u00a0<\/i>look very seasonal. \u00a0 They are living up to their name, and the flower spikes are over 2m tall. \u00a0A different variety, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anigozanthos_manglesii\" target=\"_blank\">Red and Green Kangaroo Paw<\/a>\u00a0is the floral emblem of Western Australia and I spotted some in the road reserve beside the property. \u00a0 The tubular flowers are coated with hairs and open with six claw-like flaps which do actually look like a kangaroo&#8217;s front paw. \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anbg.gov.au\/anigozanthos\/\" target=\"_blank\">Birds are the main pollinators<\/a> and the kangaroo p<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">aws have evolved to avoid bees. \u00a0<\/span><em>The long flower-stalks &#8216;advertise&#8217; the presence of nectar in the flowers and provide a perch for visiting birds. \u00a0The shape of the flowers allows pollen to be deposited on the head of feeding birds. \u00a0This pollen is transferred from flower to flower as the birds feed. \u00a0Different species usually deposit pollen on different areas of the birds&#8217; head. This means that pollen from one species is unlikely to be deposited in the flowers of another species.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">B<\/span>ird pollinated flowers are often unscented, red and produce abundant dilute nectar. \u00a0I have actually seen a couple of Honeyeaters perched on the \u00a0stems drinking the nectar, but not got any photos&#8230;yet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20131229-047.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5691 alignleft\" alt=\"20131229 047\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20131229-047-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20131229-047-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20131229-047-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20131229-047.jpg 1642w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20131229-042.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5692\" alt=\"20131229 042\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20131229-042-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20131229-042-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20131229-042.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131215a-042.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5553\" alt=\"20131215a 042\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131215a-042-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131215a-042-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131215a-042.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Red and Green flowers on our Tall Kangaroo Paws (Anigozanthos flavidus)\u00a0look very seasonal. \u00a0 They are living [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5691,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flowers","category-property"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20131229-047.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5633","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=5633"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5768,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5633\/revisions\/5768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}