{"id":4882,"date":"2013-05-28T07:42:41","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T11:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=4882"},"modified":"2013-05-29T12:15:50","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T16:15:50","slug":"quercus-macrocarpa-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/quercus-macrocarpa-2\/","title":{"rendered":"quercus macrocarpa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_4006-burr-oak-leaf.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The leaves are 7\u201315\u00a0cm (3\u20136\u00a0in) long and 5\u201313\u00a0cm (2\u20135\u00a0in) broad, variable in shape, with a lobed margin. Most often, the basal 60% is narrower and deeply lobed, while the apical 40% is wider and has shallow lobes or large teeth. The flowers are greenish-yellow catkins, produced in the spring. The acorns are very large, 2\u20135\u00a0cm (0.8\u20132\u00a0in) long and 2\u20134\u00a0cm (0.8-1.5\u00a0in) broad, having a large cup that wraps much of the way around the nut, with large overlapping scales and often a fringe at the edge of the cup.&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quercus_macrocarpa\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nBur oaks bear seed up to an age of 400 years, older than reported for any other American oak. The minimum seed-bearing age is about 35 years, and the optimum is 75 to 150 years (5,16). Silvics Manual Volume 2. Hardwoods. USDA<\/p>\n<p>\ndefying expectations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leaves are 7\u201315\u00a0cm (3\u20136\u00a0in) long and 5\u201313\u00a0cm (2\u20135\u00a0in) broad, variable in shape, with a lobed margin. Most often, the basal 60% is narrower and deeply lobed, while the apical 40% is wider and has shallow lobes or large teeth. The flowers are greenish-yellow catkins, produced in the spring. The acorns are very large, 2\u20135\u00a0cm &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/quercus-macrocarpa-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;quercus macrocarpa&#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":"","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":[16,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flora","category-parts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4882"}],"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=4882"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4887,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4882\/revisions\/4887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}