{"id":10796,"date":"2020-03-06T08:49:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T13:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=10796"},"modified":"2020-03-06T08:49:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T13:49:56","slug":"platanus-occidentalis-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/platanus-occidentalis-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Platanus occidentalis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1028\" height=\"685\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/200303bw-sycamore-and-moon.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10797\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/200303bw-sycamore-and-moon.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/200303bw-sycamore-and-moon-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/200303bw-sycamore-and-moon-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/200303bw-sycamore-and-moon-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>Sycamore behind the VFW on River Road, next to the Rivanna. This tree had been encased with bamboo. Recently liberated by?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A sycamore can grow to massive proportions, typically reaching up to 30 to 40 m (98 to 131 ft) high and 1.5 to 2 m (4.9 to 6.6 ft) in diameter when grown in deep soils. The largest of the species have been measured to 53 m (174 ft), and nearly 4 m (13 ft) in diameter.-<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Platanus_occidentalis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Wikipedia (opens in a new tab)\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sycamore can grow to massive proportions, typically reaching up to 30 to 40 m (98 to 131 ft) high and 1.5 to 2 m (4.9 to 6.6 ft) in diameter when grown in deep soils. The largest of the species have been measured to 53 m (174 ft), and nearly 4 m (13 ft) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/platanus-occidentalis-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Platanus occidentalis&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"VFW Platanus occidentalis on the banks of the Rivanna","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[16,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flora","category-riverine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10796"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10799,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10796\/revisions\/10799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}