{"id":8458,"date":"2015-06-27T10:57:02","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T15:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=8458"},"modified":"2015-07-05T16:26:08","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T21:26:08","slug":"caesalpinia-gilliesii-yellow-bird-of-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=8458","title":{"rendered":"<em>Caesalpinia gilliesii<\/em> (Yellow Bird of Paradise)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8460\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/img_20150627_108357.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8460\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/img_20150627_108357-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Caesalpinia gilliesii (Yellow Bird of Paradise)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8460\" data-wp-pid=\"8460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/img_20150627_108357-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/img_20150627_108357-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/img_20150627_108357-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/img_20150627_108357-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/img_20150627_108357-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/img_20150627_108357.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8460\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Caesalpinia gilliesii<\/em> (Yellow Bird of Paradise)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It was our last day in Albuquerque and we were sad to be leaving. I took a few pictures of Bert and Jane&#8217;s front yard while the others visited. Robert has done a nice job of xeriscaping the front yard and has three things that I photographed and identified. First, there are small, yellow chocolate flowers (<em>Berlandiera lyrata<\/em>), a member of the Compositae (or Asteraceae) family. There is also a red yucca, or more properly redflower false yucca (<em>Hesperaloe parviflora<\/em>, which is quite nice and actually seems to be quite hardy and might be worth finding for our yard, possibly in a container. Finally, there is the plant pictured here, the yellow bird of paradise (<em>Caesalpinia gilliesii<\/em>), which is a legume (family Fabaceae), not anything like the regular bird of paradise, which are in teh genus <em>Strelitzia<\/em>. It&#8217;s quite pretty, anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was our last day in Albuquerque and we were sad to be leaving. I took a few pictures of Bert and Jane&#8217;s front yard while the others visited. Robert has done a nice job of xeriscaping the front yard and has three things that I photographed and identified. First, there are small, yellow chocolate &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=8458\">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":[3,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8458"}],"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=8458"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8463,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8458\/revisions\/8463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}