{"id":23257,"date":"2020-09-29T13:46:59","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T04:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/29\/rare-houseplant-stolen-from-botanic-gardens-in-new-zealand"},"modified":"2020-09-29T13:46:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T04:46:59","slug":"rare-and-fashionable-houseplant-stolen-from-botanic-gardens-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23257","title":{"rendered":"Rare and fashionable houseplant stolen from botanic gardens in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Variegated monstera disappears from orchid house in Christchurch amid boom in popularity of valuable flora<\/p>\n<p>A rare and valuable houseplant has disappeared from the Christchurch Botanic Gardens in New Zealand, amid a boom in the popularity of unique indoor greenery.<\/p>\n<p>A variegated monstera \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2019\/sep\/15\/something-sparked-inside-me-the-650-plant-stealing-hearts-and-wallets\">one of the world\u2019s most prized indoor plants<\/a> \u2013 went missing from the gardens earlier this month. Its distinctive white and green leaves make it potentially valuable on the black market.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/29\/rare-houseplant-stolen-from-botanic-gardens-in-new-zealand\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Variegated monstera disappears from orchid house in Christchurch amid boom in popularity of valuable floraA rare and valuable houseplant has disappeared from the Christchurch Botanic Gardens in New Zealand, amid a boom in the popularity of unique indoo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23258,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23257\/revisions\/23258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}