{"content":[{"text":"!","bbox":{"left":0.07152,"top":0.04602,"width":0.004318000000000002,"height":0.017763000000000008}},{"text":"An Orchid Grows in Long Beach: Zeuxine strateumatica \n by John McCoy","bbox":{"left":0.23781,"top":0.0767,"width":0.526247,"height":0.03450299999999999}},{"text":"Zeuxine strateumatica is a terrestrial orchid native to much of temperate and tropical Asia, from \n New Guinea to Afganistan. It has traveled, probably as a hitchhiker in nursery stock, well beyond \n its native range, as far as Australia, Hawaii, Florida (as early as 1936), and Brazil. It was first \n noticed in Southern California in 2017 in the Riverside area. Basically, it’s a weed, even if it is an \n orchid. In many areas outside its normal range, it grows in lawns.","bbox":{"left":0.07152,"top":0.129125,"width":0.842521,"height":0.086624}},{"text":"Last year, local orchid enthusiast John Maude noticed it along the Blue Line tracks on Long Beach \n Boulevard, south of Pacific Coast Highway. The Blue Line tracks had been replaced, along with all \n the top soil and so-called landscaping during the previous year, so the new orchid could only have \n been introduced in the new soil, plants, or, most likely, the shredded bark mulch. The next day, in \n March, 2020, Ron Vanderhoff, General Manager and horticulturalist at Roger’s Gardens, decided \n to visit the site. He took photographs and collected material for herbarium specimens.","bbox":{"left":0.07152,"top":0.23367,"width":0.8567250000000001,"height":0.10389700000000002}},{"text":"Information about this Long Beach orchid discovery turned up on Facebook recently (reposted \n automatically as a sort of “memory” from the previous year’s posts by the California Native Plant \n Society), so we contacted Ron and got his permission to include his photos in our newsletter. (All \n photos © 2020 Ron Vanderhoff)","bbox":{"left":0.07152,"top":0.355488,"width":0.844669,"height":0.06935200000000002}},{"text":"Zeuxine strateumatica was described by Linnaeus as Orchis strateumatica in 1753. After several \n taxonomic adventures, Schlechter transferred it to its present home in the genus Zeuxine in 1911.","bbox":{"left":0.07152,"top":0.442761,"width":0.8458009999999999,"height":0.03420000000000001}},{"text":"Obviously, this plant doesn’t resent transplanting! \n know if you find it in your own garden!","bbox":{"left":0.07152,"top":0.494882,"width":0.42727099999999996,"height":0.034503000000000006}},{"text":"It could turn up anywhere in our area.","bbox":{"left":0.509684,"top":0.494882,"width":0.32482500000000003,"height":0.01692699999999997}},{"text":"Let us","bbox":{"left":0.845403,"top":0.494882,"width":0.05341499999999999,"height":0.01692699999999997}},{"text":"Closeup","bbox":{"left":0.683284,"top":0.846094,"width":0.07194400000000001,"height":0.016927000000000025}},{"text":"Long Beach Site","bbox":{"left":0.07152,"top":0.857306,"width":0.143904,"height":0.016927000000000025}},{"text":"In Situ","bbox":{"left":0.377402,"top":0.857306,"width":0.055587,"height":0.016927000000000025}}],"images_bbox":[{"left":0.07152,"top":0.549811,"width":0.264706,"height":0.307273},{"left":0.377402,"top":0.549811,"width":0.264706,"height":0.307273},{"left":0.683284,"top":0.549811,"width":0.264706,"height":0.296061}],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[{"left":0.07152,"top":0.549811,"width":0.264706,"height":0.307273},{"left":0.377402,"top":0.549811,"width":0.264706,"height":0.307273},{"left":0.683284,"top":0.549811,"width":0.264706,"height":0.296061}]}