{"id":1718,"date":"2012-09-05T23:15:15","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T04:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=1718"},"modified":"2012-09-06T15:27:27","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T20:27:27","slug":"cornus-kousa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=1718","title":{"rendered":"<em>Cornus kousa<\/em> (Kousa Dogwood)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1720\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/img_20120905_043790.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1720\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/img_20120905_043790-233x350.jpg\" alt=\"Cornus kousa\" title=\"&lt;em&gt;Cornus kousa&lt;\/em&gt;\" width=\"233\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/img_20120905_043790-233x350.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/img_20120905_043790-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/img_20120905_043790-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/img_20120905_043790-800x1200.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/img_20120905_043790.jpg 833w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1720\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Cornus kousa<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The kousa dogwood is a nice alternative to our native flowering dogwood (<em>Cornus florida<\/em>) for a number of reasons. One is that it is less susceptible to dogwood anthracnose (<em>Discula destructiva<\/em>). On the other hand, it flowers later and there are not as many good pink flowered varieties. When it comes to fruit, I think the <em>kousa<\/em> wins, though. This is a tree in our neighborhood and it is absolutely covered with fruit. I marvel at it every time I drive by. The fruit are edible, by the way, in case you are in the woods and need something nutritious and don&#8217;t care if it has no real flavour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The kousa dogwood is a nice alternative to our native flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) for a number of reasons. One is that it is less susceptible to dogwood anthracnose (Discula destructiva). On the other hand, it flowers later and there are not as many good pink flowered varieties. When it comes to fruit, I think &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=1718\">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\/1718"}],"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=1718"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1723,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions\/1723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}