{"id":2462,"date":"2011-07-26T09:43:28","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T13:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=2462"},"modified":"2011-07-26T09:43:28","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T13:43:28","slug":"betula-uber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/betula-uber\/","title":{"rendered":"betula uber"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2461\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2461\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/cjl1118-A2937-murray-round-leaf-birch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/cjl1118-A2937-murray-round-leaf-birch.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"cjl1118-A2937-murray-round-leaf-birch\" width=\"850\" height=\"569\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/cjl1118-A2937-murray-round-leaf-birch.jpg 850w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/cjl1118-A2937-murray-round-leaf-birch-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2461\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Virginia round-leaf birch was the first tree given protection under the Endangered Species Act. This rare variant was first described by botanist<br \/>\nW.W. Ashe in 1918 as living in a single creek's drainage area.<br \/>\nThe single natural population of Virginia round-leaf birch has dwindled down to only eight individuals in 2003.<br \/>\nReproduction in the wild was last documented in 1981.<br \/>\nWhile there are nearly 1,000 artificially propagated trees in botanical gardens and the wild, the lack of natural reproduction is the primary reason the tree is still listed today.<br \/>\nRecovery for the Virginia round-leaf birch hinges on the successful natural reproduction and survival of these populations in the wild.--U.S. Fish and Wildife Service<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/tree-sex.mp3'>tree sex<\/a><br \/>\nTree champion Joe Murray talks about woody perennial sex and Betula Uber\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","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":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flora"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462"}],"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=2462"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2467,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462\/revisions\/2467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}