{"id":21778,"date":"2022-04-03T17:39:39","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T22:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=21778"},"modified":"2022-05-10T14:05:59","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T19:05:59","slug":"podophyllum-peltatum-mayapple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=21778","title":{"rendered":"<em>Podophyllum peltatum<\/em> (Mayapple)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21753\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/img_20220403_001032.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21753\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/img_20220403_001032-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Podophyllum peltatum (Mayapple)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21753\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/img_20220403_001032-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/img_20220403_001032-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/img_20220403_001032-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/img_20220403_001032-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/img_20220403_001032.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21753\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Podophyllum peltatum<\/em> (Mayapple)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We walked in Meadowside Nature Center this afternoon and saw more bloodroot (<em>Sanguinaria canadensis<\/em>) as seen in yesterday&#8217;s photo. We also saw quite a few mayapples (<em>Podophyllum peltatum<\/em>) coming up. They come out of the ground as cones and then the leaves spread like an opening umbrella. Apparently plants with a single leaf will not flower but those with two will produce a flower stem from the leaf axil (where the two leaf stems branch). While the leaves and roots are poisonous, the fruit, when ripe, can be made into preserves and jellies. I never have, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We walked in Meadowside Nature Center this afternoon and saw more bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) as seen in yesterday&#8217;s photo. We also saw quite a few mayapples (Podophyllum peltatum) coming up. They come out of the ground as cones and then the leaves spread like an opening umbrella. Apparently plants with a single leaf will not &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=21778\">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":[3134,32,3133,3132,479],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21778"}],"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=21778"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21840,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21778\/revisions\/21840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}