{"id":19726,"date":"2020-10-26T17:07:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T22:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=19726"},"modified":"2020-11-04T16:49:47","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T21:49:47","slug":"berberis-thunbergii-japanese-barberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=19726","title":{"rendered":"<em>Berberis thunbergii<\/em> (Japanese barberry)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19728\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/img_20201026_179624.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19728\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/img_20201026_179624-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"&lt;em&gt;Berberis thunbergii&lt;\/em&gt; (Japanese barberry)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/img_20201026_179624-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/img_20201026_179624-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/img_20201026_179624-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/img_20201026_179624-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/img_20201026_179624.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19728\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Berberis thunbergii<\/em> (Japanese barberry)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cathy and I drove up to pick up our car from the shop this evening and then I stopped at the nature center on the way home to see if I could find anything worth photographing. I took a few nice pictures including a few of the berries of a Japanese barberry (<em>Berberis thunbergii<\/em>, also known as Thunberg&#8217;s barberry). This is an invasive species and I generally don&#8217;t recommend it. It&#8217;s somewhat too late to worry about, though, because it&#8217;s already everywhere. And of course there are hundreds of them at the garden center. They do may nice plantings, so I understand why people use them. Note that the fruit is edible and I have used it in a few Persian dishes. They have a great, tart flavor, similar to cranberries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cathy and I drove up to pick up our car from the shop this evening and then I stopped at the nature center on the way home to see if I could find anything worth photographing. I took a few nice pictures including a few of the berries of a Japanese barberry (Berberis thunbergii, also &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=19726\">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":[2662,2660,2661,226,2615,2663,1674,205],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19726"}],"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=19726"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19729,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19726\/revisions\/19729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}