{"id":529,"date":"2014-06-15T15:23:56","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T15:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/?p=529"},"modified":"2014-09-02T15:31:54","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T15:31:54","slug":"orchids-grow-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/orchids-grow-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Orchids Grow Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_530\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csysi.co.uk\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-orchid.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-530\" class=\"wp-image-530\" src=\"http:\/\/www.csysi.co.uk\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-orchid.jpg\" alt=\"Marsh orchid\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-orchid.jpg 1800w, http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-orchid-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-orchid-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-530\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Early Marsh Orchid growing at Sanna<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At this time of year, Ardnamurchan&#8217;s croft fields and even the higher, more barren lands above them start to see the first of the summer&#8217;s orchids. \u00a0Often thought of as an exotic plant of the tropical rain forests, orchids grow wild in the Highlands, often on some of the most barren soil. \u00a0So far, we&#8217;ve managed to identify six species of orchid on West Ardnamurchan, but there are reported to be several more &#8211; each year, we look forward to finding a few more.<\/p>\n<p>This specimen is an\u00a0Early Marsh Orchid, and it was growing close to the car park at Sanna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this time of year, Ardnamurchan&#8217;s croft fields and even the higher, more barren lands above them start to see the first of the summer&#8217;s orchids. \u00a0Often thought of as an exotic plant of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-of-the-week","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions\/531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clanmaciain.com\/maciain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}