{"id":7671,"date":"2019-04-22T10:56:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T14:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=7671"},"modified":"2019-04-22T10:56:27","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T14:56:27","slug":"flowering-palms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/22\/flowering-palms\/","title":{"rendered":"Flowering palms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_7672\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/0420191258a_HDR.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7672\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7672\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7672\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/0420191258a_HDR-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Banana-like seed pods\" width=\"480\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/0420191258a_HDR-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/0420191258a_HDR-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/0420191258a_HDR-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/0420191258a_HDR-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/0420191258a_HDR-400x600.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7672\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Banana-like seed pods<\/p><\/div>I was doing some site cleanup yesterday &#8211; removing dead fronds from our palm shrubs &#8211; and noticed that they are all &#8220;flowering&#8221;.\u00a0 Not that a palm produces flowers, but they all go through a reproductive phase.\u00a0 Some had pollen-covered &#8220;antlers&#8221; growing from their stems.\u00a0 But one had pods of what looked like bananas, split open to reveal thousands of little white pearls.\u00a0 Seeds?\u00a0 Don&#8217;t know, but maybe I will research it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was doing some site cleanup yesterday &#8211; removing dead fronds from our palm shrubs &#8211; and noticed that they are all &#8220;flowering&#8221;.\u00a0 Not that a palm produces flowers, but they all go through a reproductive phase.\u00a0 Some had pollen-covered &#8220;antlers&#8221; growing from their stems.\u00a0 But one had pods of what looked like bananas, split &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/22\/flowering-palms\/\">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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41,4,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fl","category-places","category-rv-living"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-1ZJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7671"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7674,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7671\/revisions\/7674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}