{"id":20148,"date":"2021-01-18T12:59:54","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T17:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=20148"},"modified":"2021-01-28T15:57:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T20:57:10","slug":"skunk-cabbage-symplocarpus-foetidus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=20148","title":{"rendered":"Skunk Cabbage (<em>Symplocarpus foetidus<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20150\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/img_20210118_181047.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20150\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/img_20210118_181047-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Skunk Cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/img_20210118_181047-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/img_20210118_181047-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/img_20210118_181047-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/img_20210118_181047-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/img_20210118_181047.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20150\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skunk Cabbage (<em>Symplocarpus foetidus<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We walked on a section of Muddy Branch trail today that we hadn&#8217;t been on before. We went roughly 1.8 miles each way and enjoyed being outdoors. We saw a few belted kingfishers (<em>Megaceryle alcyon<\/em>) and there were lots of small songbirds in any thicket we passed. There were a few places with standing water and a few of them had a skunk cabbage plants (<em>Symplocarpus foetidus<\/em>) growing in them. It&#8217;s one a small number of thermogenic plants, which produce heat by chemical reaction and raise their temperature above that of the surrounding environment. Pretty cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We walked on a section of Muddy Branch trail today that we hadn&#8217;t been on before. We went roughly 1.8 miles each way and enjoyed being outdoors. We saw a few belted kingfishers (Megaceryle alcyon) and there were lots of small songbirds in any thicket we passed. There were a few places with standing water &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=20148\">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":[2749,2748,2746,2747,2750,2751,324],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20148"}],"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=20148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20151,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20148\/revisions\/20151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}