{"id":7005,"date":"2014-11-28T14:26:30","date_gmt":"2014-11-28T19:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=7005"},"modified":"2014-12-01T22:53:34","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T03:53:34","slug":"celastrus-orbiculatus-oriental-bittersweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=7005","title":{"rendered":"<em>Celastrus orbiculatus<\/em> (Oriental Bittersweet)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7007\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/img_20141128_094748.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7007\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/img_20141128_094748-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Celastrus orbiculatus (Oriental Bittersweet)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7007\" data-wp-pid=\"7007\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/img_20141128_094748-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/img_20141128_094748-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/img_20141128_094748-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/img_20141128_094748-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/img_20141128_094748.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7007\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Celastrus orbiculatus<\/em> (Oriental Bittersweet)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cathy and I went for a walk on the Blue Mash trail in Laytonsville. It&#8217;s just behind a landfil and is mostly reverting to woods but there are some areas kept open, as well. There is a small pond and around it there were fairly dense stands of oriental bittersweet (<em>Celastrus orbiculatus<\/em>), also known as climbing spindleberry. It is a non-native, invasive species and grows much more vigorously than the native <em>C. scandens<\/em> (American bittersweet). I know we&#8217;re not suppose to like invasive species but I find it quite pretty and (probably because I don&#8217;t have to do battle with it in our yard) don&#8217;t mind it too much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cathy and I went for a walk on the Blue Mash trail in Laytonsville. It&#8217;s just behind a landfil and is mostly reverting to woods but there are some areas kept open, as well. There is a small pond and around it there were fairly dense stands of oriental bittersweet (Celastrus orbiculatus), also known as &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=7005\">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\/7005"}],"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=7005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7008,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7005\/revisions\/7008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}