{"id":2467,"date":"2010-05-07T06:26:56","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T10:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=2467"},"modified":"2010-05-07T06:35:04","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T10:35:04","slug":"victoria-regia-amazonica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/2467","title":{"rendered":"Victoria regia (amazonica)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via a <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/BibliOdyssey\/status\/13467584810\">tweet<\/a> from peacay, some fantastic images of <em>Victoria amazonica<\/em> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.botanicus.org\/item\/31753000796083#\">botanicus.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4011\/4584019206_3b95ccbabd_o.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4011\/4584019206_859d60b99a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"385\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span>*<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span><a href=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4021\/4584019264_7ca170cc77_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4021\/4584019264_4af912f03a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"385\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span>*<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Victoria_%28waterlily%29\">victorias<\/a> are a bit of a grail plant for me (I use that expression a lot &#8211; sorry) &#8211; from the Amazon basin (or the Paraguay\/Parana &#8211; home to a fish on my wish list), featured in Victorian photographs with folks standing on them, intricate, thorny leaves &#8211; what&#8217;s not to love?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Woman_standing_on_Victoria_cruziana.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/2\/21\/Woman_standing_on_Victoria_cruziana.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"392\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span>*<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span>An image shamelessly ganked from <a href=\"http:\/\/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com\/\">Bibliodyssey<\/a> (thanks for assembling it, peacay) &#8211; clicking on it will take you to the originating post, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/gould-hummingbirds.html\">Gould Hummingbirds<\/a>&#8220;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span><a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Chlorostilbon-poortmanni-page.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2475 aligncenter\" title=\"Chlorostilbon poortmanni (page)\" src=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Chlorostilbon-poortmanni-page-839x1023.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"503\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Chlorostilbon-poortmanni-page-839x1023.jpg 839w, http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Chlorostilbon-poortmanni-page-245x300.jpg 245w, http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Chlorostilbon-poortmanni-page.jpg 1277w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span>*<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span>A web site with more info &#8211; if you&#8217;re curious about what it&#8217;s take to grow one of these beauties &#8211; is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.victoria-adventure.org\/victoria\/victoria_index.html\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via a tweet from peacay, some fantastic images of Victoria amazonica at botanicus.org. * * The victorias are a bit of a grail plant for me (I use that expression a lot &#8211; sorry) &#8211; from the Amazon basin (or &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/2467\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plants"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqxx-DN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2467"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2501,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions\/2501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}