{"id":2495,"date":"2012-06-09T10:16:17","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T17:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/blog\/?p=2495"},"modified":"2012-06-09T10:16:17","modified_gmt":"2012-06-09T17:16:17","slug":"bewitching-brocchinia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/2012\/06\/bewitching-brocchinia\/","title":{"rendered":"Bewitching Brocchinia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7105\/7304860712_1606988b8a_z.jpg\" alt=\"Brocchinia reducta\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" \/><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Brocchinia reducta<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Brocchinia reducta is a bromeliad that seems to be a little more bewitching and devious than other bromeliads. As a bromeliads, the leaves fit together to form a foliar urn that holds water in the center of the plant. \u00a0What&#8217;s cool about Brocchinia reducta is that it&#8217;s quite possibly &#8212; <em>carnivorous<\/em>.\u00a0Brocchinia&#8217;s leaves are coated with a very slippery waxy surface. This waxy surface is highly reflective of UV light insects are fatally attracted to this magical glow. Once the meal finds it&#8217;s way to the surface, it looses it&#8217;s foothold on the crumbly waxy surface, slips into the pool, drowns, and eventually gets absorbed. It&#8217;s also reported that this death pool is &#8220;perfumed&#8221;. There&#8217;s some debate as to the nature of this plants carnivory. For more information, check out\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnivorousplants.org\/cp\/Genera\/Brocchinia.php\" target=\"_blank\">this link at the International Carnivorous Plant Society<\/a>.\u00a0I received this plant from fellow grower and friend Don Elkins on 27 July 2011 and it&#8217;s been doing quite well since then. (Thanks Donnie!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brocchinia reducta Brocchinia reducta is a bromeliad that seems to be a little more bewitching and devious than other bromeliads. As a bromeliads, the leaves fit together to form a foliar urn that holds water in the center of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/2012\/06\/bewitching-brocchinia\/\">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":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[591,592,22,593],"class_list":["post-2495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-brocchinia-reducta","tag-bromeliad","tag-carnivorous","tag-superwaxyreflectiveawesomeness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}