{"id":5722,"date":"2014-05-03T12:54:21","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T17:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=5722"},"modified":"2014-05-12T21:26:47","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T02:26:47","slug":"pawpaw-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=5722","title":{"rendered":"Pawpaw Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5724\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/img_20140503_083042.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5724\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/img_20140503_083042-233x350.jpg\" alt=\"Pawpaw Flowers\" width=\"233\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5724\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/img_20140503_083042-233x350.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/img_20140503_083042-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/img_20140503_083042-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/img_20140503_083042-800x1200.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/img_20140503_083042.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5724\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pawpaw Flowers<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We went for a hike on Billy Goat Trail C today, after a walk out to the overlook at Great Falls (and because Trail A was closed because of flooding). It was a lovely day, not too hot but warm enough. There are a lot of pawpaws along this trail and I was able to get one decent picture that shows their flowers as flowers. They are quite dark and almost brown, but have a little bit of red in them, which you can see in the right light, as in this picture.<\/p>\n<p>The pawpaw (<em>Asimina triloba<\/em>) is an native tree with a very interesting fruit which, according to Wikipedia, is the largest indigenous to the United States. The fruit has yellow, custard-like flesh that is quite sweet and luscious and I&#8217;m a big fan. Dad planted quite a few in Pennsylvania and a couple in the yard. One drawback is that the flowers smell a bit like rotting meat. Dad would actually hang small bags of meat scraps to attract blowflies or carrion beetles for pollination. Yes, it&#8217;s as gross as it sounds. But the fruit is worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went for a hike on Billy Goat Trail C today, after a walk out to the overlook at Great Falls (and because Trail A was closed because of flooding). It was a lovely day, not too hot but warm enough. There are a lot of pawpaws along this trail and I was able to &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=5722\">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\/5722"}],"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=5722"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5741,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5722\/revisions\/5741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}