{"id":11357,"date":"2016-11-17T16:05:49","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T21:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=11357"},"modified":"2016-11-21T21:11:32","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T02:11:32","slug":"oriental-bittersweet-celastrus-orbiculatus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=11357","title":{"rendered":"Oriental Bittersweet (<em>Celastrus orbiculatus<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11359\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_20161117_133218.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11359\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_20161117_133218-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Oriental Bittersweet (Celastrus orbiculatus)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11359\" data-wp-pid=\"11359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_20161117_133218-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_20161117_133218-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_20161117_133218-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_20161117_133218-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_20161117_133218-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_20161117_133218.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11359\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oriental Bittersweet (<em>Celastrus orbiculatus<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Oriental or Asiatic bittersweet, <em>Celastrus orbiculatus<\/em>, is an invasive species in our area. There&#8217;s a fair amount of it about, climbing up into trees. This vine is growing into a small tree on the other side of the woods from my office. It gets full afternoon sun and it&#8217;s quite happy there. Of course, multiflora roses (<em>Rosa multiflora<\/em>), Japanese and Amur honeysuckle (<em>Lonicera japonica<\/em> and <em>L. maackii<\/em>), porcelain-berry (<em>Ampelopsis brevipedunculata<\/em>), mile-a-minute vine (<em>Persicaria perfoliata<\/em>), and tree of heaven (<em>Ailanthus altissima<\/em>) to name only a few, are also in profusion through the area, so a little bittersweet is the least of our problems. It&#8217;s also quite pretty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oriental or Asiatic bittersweet, Celastrus orbiculatus, is an invasive species in our area. There&#8217;s a fair amount of it about, climbing up into trees. This vine is growing into a small tree on the other side of the woods from my office. It gets full afternoon sun and it&#8217;s quite happy there. Of course, multiflora &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=11357\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11357"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11370,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11357\/revisions\/11370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}