{"id":1071,"date":"2011-12-08T09:48:57","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T09:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2012-02-15T01:23:44","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T01:23:44","slug":"gastrodia-sesamoides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/gastrodia-sesamoides\/","title":{"rendered":"Gastrodia sesamoides"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Gastrodia sesamoides<\/strong><\/em> – Australian native potato orchid<\/p>\n

http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gastrodia_sesamoides<\/p>\n

Its leafless and saprophytic, so you only see it when it flowers or you dig it up accidentally.<\/p>\n

The spikes are quite minimal but attractive when the flowers open.<\/p>\n

Our backyard\u00a0has been fully converted for some 10 years to growing mainly native plants.\u00a0We have a lot of these orchids growing wild now along with a number of other native ground orchids including various green hoods, caladenia etc. I have been spreading them about the place each year as I find them and there are now about 4-5 significant clumps and about 15-20 other single plants moving about as they wish in the garden. They move location frequently and quickly each season and grow to the size of a small potato [about 10cm long and 2-3cm thick] once growing happy in the environment. You often find about 2-3 of them near each other – I assume they may break up or split or something – its hard to tell as they are mostly moving about underground about 5 cm below the surface in the soil. The flower spikes are about up to 1 meter high once mature and growing strong. They have a very slight scent when they first open in the morning.<\/p>\n

They are coming to the end of flowering in December this year.<\/p>\n

Please excuse the grass and aluminium plant weeds etc there in the clump photo \ud83d\ude42 it’s hard to stay on top of that stuff all the time.<\/p>\n

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Gastrodia sesamoides – Australian native potato orchid http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gastrodia_sesamoides Its leafless and saprophytic, so you only see it when it flowers or you dig it up accidentally. The spikes are quite minimal but attractive when the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1073,"comment_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-content\/media\/gastrodia01.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ccXI-hh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1080,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions\/1080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}