{"id":21049,"date":"2021-12-12T13:21:59","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T18:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=21049"},"modified":"2021-12-27T13:24:15","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T18:24:15","slug":"celastrus-orbiculatus-asian-bittersweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=21049","title":{"rendered":"<em>Celastrus orbiculatus<\/em> (Asian Bittersweet)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21028\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/img_20211212_187592.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21028\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/img_20211212_187592-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Celastrus orbiculatus (Asian Bittersweet)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21028\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/img_20211212_187592-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/img_20211212_187592-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/img_20211212_187592-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/img_20211212_187592-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/img_20211212_187592.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21028\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Celastrus orbiculatus<\/em> (Asian Bittersweet)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cathy and I went for another walk after church today (that&#8217;s pretty common, as you might have noticed). This time we went to the Blue Mash Trail on Zion Road behind the Laytonsville land fill. I didn&#8217;t take many pictures and most of them were of Asiatic bittersweet (<em>Celastrus orbiculatus<\/em>) as in this photo. I particularly like this picture because of the added color of the juniper (most likely eastern red cedar, <em>Juniperus virginiana<\/em>). We have a native bittersweet (<em>Celastrus scandens<\/em>) but I&#8217;ll confess that I could not readily differentiate between the two, basically assuming that anything we see is the more aggressive <em>C. orbiculatus<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cathy and I went for another walk after church today (that&#8217;s pretty common, as you might have noticed). This time we went to the Blue Mash Trail on Zion Road behind the Laytonsville land fill. I didn&#8217;t take many pictures and most of them were of Asiatic bittersweet (Celastrus orbiculatus) as in this photo. I &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=21049\">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":[2996,2136,2135,2134,1296,1674],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21049"}],"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=21049"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21276,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21049\/revisions\/21276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}