{"id":12361,"date":"2017-05-29T16:48:40","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T21:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12361"},"modified":"2017-06-01T10:50:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T15:50:13","slug":"celosia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12361","title":{"rendered":"<em>Celosia<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12363\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/img_20170529_142173.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12363\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/img_20170529_142173-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Celosia\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12363\" data-wp-pid=\"12363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/img_20170529_142173-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/img_20170529_142173-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/img_20170529_142173-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/img_20170529_142173-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/img_20170529_142173-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/img_20170529_142173.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12363\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Celosia<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cathy&#8217;s been stocking up on her annuals and has begun to put them into containers to go around the house. There are some amazing colors and textures and I thought for today I&#8217;d feature this <em>Celosia<\/em>. Its bright orange flowers are about as close to a flame as you can get and the genus name actually comes from the Greek word keleos (\u03ba\u03ae\u03bb\u03b5\u03bf\u03c2) meaning burning.<\/p>\n<p>Cathy has a couple with this flower color and one that is a deep, hot red. They really are something and bloom well in full sun and even light shade. I didn&#8217;t know this until recently but apparently it is edible and is cultivated as a leafy green vegetable. According to Wikipedia (caveat emptor, or in this case the eater), &#x201c;It is traditional fare in the countries of Central and West Africa, and is one of the leading leafy green vegetables in Nigeria, where it is known as \u2018soko yokoto\u2019, meaning &#x2018;make husbands fat and happy.&#x2019;&#x201d;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cathy&#8217;s been stocking up on her annuals and has begun to put them into containers to go around the house. There are some amazing colors and textures and I thought for today I&#8217;d feature this Celosia. Its bright orange flowers are about as close to a flame as you can get and the genus name &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12361\">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\/12361"}],"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=12361"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12365,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12361\/revisions\/12365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}