{"id":241,"date":"2013-03-24T23:46:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T03:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/?p=241"},"modified":"2013-05-07T23:53:05","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T03:53:05","slug":"tree-mob-witch-hazels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/tree-mob-witch-hazels\/","title":{"rendered":"Arboretum Tree Mob: Witch-Hazels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next to the Hunnewell building, a shrub has been blooming bright yellow for quite a while now.  Refusing to wait for spring, certain species of witch-hazel unfurl their petals as early as January.  &#8216;Arnold Promise&#8217; has a little more patience, waiting until the middle of February.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_242\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_242\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 810px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/witch_hazel1.jpg\" alt=\"Witch-Hazel Arnold Promise in bloom\" title=\"Witch-Hazel Arnold Promise\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-full wp-image-242\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/witch_hazel1.jpg 800w, http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/witch_hazel1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arnold Promise in bloom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This past Wednesday, the Arnold Arboretum&#8217;s Nancy Rose shared the story of the plant&#8217;s origin.  In 1928, William Judd collected seeds from a Chinese witch-hazel (<i>Hamamelis mollis<\/i>) growing in the Arboretum.  Seven plants survived the germination process but none were like its parent.  Judd deduced that the plants were a cross with the Japanese witch-hazel (<i>Hamamelis japonica<\/i>) planted nearby.  The best of these plants, one that did not hold onto its dead leaves and whose flowers had long, bright yellow petals, was named &#8216;Arnold Promise.&#8217;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_243\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_243\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 810px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/nancy_rose.jpg\" alt=\"Nancy Rose under  a witch-hazel shrub\" title=\"Nancy Rose under  a witch-hazel shrub\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-full wp-image-243\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/nancy_rose.jpg 800w, http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/nancy_rose-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_243\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy Rose on how the witch-hazel &#039;Arnold Promise&#039; came to be.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arnoldia.arboretum.harvard.edu\/pdf\/articles\/1991-51-4-hamamelis-arnold-promise.pdf\"><i>Arnoldia<\/i> article<\/a> on &#8216;Arnold Promise&#8217; (pdf)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next to the Hunnewell building, a shrub has been blooming bright yellow for quite a while now. Refusing to wait for spring, certain species of witch-hazel unfurl their petals as early as January. &#8216;Arnold Promise&#8217; has a little more patience, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/tree-mob-witch-hazels\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,89,88,87,159,75],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}