{"id":6431,"date":"2018-09-09T14:08:44","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T14:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=6431"},"modified":"2018-09-09T14:17:56","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T14:17:56","slug":"autumnal-marvels-at-kew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/09\/autumnal-marvels-at-kew\/","title":{"rendered":"Autumnal Marvels at Kew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the delights of walking in nature, or indeed in a botanic garden, is that you never know what surprises you may meet.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6433\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6433\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSCN5927-Osage-Orange-Maclura-pomifera-fruit.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6433\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSCN5927-Osage-Orange-Maclura-pomifera-fruit-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSCN5927-Osage-Orange-Maclura-pomifera-fruit-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSCN5927-Osage-Orange-Maclura-pomifera-fruit-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSCN5927-Osage-Orange-Maclura-pomifera-fruit-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSCN5927-Osage-Orange-Maclura-pomifera-fruit-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6433\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Osage Orange, Maclura pomifera fruit cluster, with sticky white latex when cut. The Osage were the tallest tribe in North America; they used the wood to make bows (for shooting). Maclure was a Scottish-American geologist. Pomifera (apple-bearing) means the &#8216;fruit&#8217; looks vaguely like an apple. Actually it&#8217;s more reminiscent of a luridly fluorescent green tennis ball, and about the same size too.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6432\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6432\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSCN5933-Wild-Honey-Bees-guarding-nest-in-Deodar-cedar.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6432\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSCN5933-Wild-Honey-Bees-guarding-nest-in-Deodar-cedar-889x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSCN5933-Wild-Honey-Bees-guarding-nest-in-Deodar-cedar-889x1024.jpg 889w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSCN5933-Wild-Honey-Bees-guarding-nest-in-Deodar-cedar-130x150.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSCN5933-Wild-Honey-Bees-guarding-nest-in-Deodar-cedar-260x300.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSCN5933-Wild-Honey-Bees-guarding-nest-in-Deodar-cedar-768x885.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSCN5933-Wild-Honey-Bees-guarding-nest-in-Deodar-cedar.jpg 922w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6432\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wild Honey Bees guarding nest in Deodar cedar. David, one of the volunteer helpers, led us to it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6437\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6437\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSCN5911-New-Blue-Dragon-on-Kew-Pagoda.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6437\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSCN5911-New-Blue-Dragon-on-Kew-Pagoda-846x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSCN5911-New-Blue-Dragon-on-Kew-Pagoda-846x1024.jpg 846w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSCN5911-New-Blue-Dragon-on-Kew-Pagoda-124x150.jpg 124w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSCN5911-New-Blue-Dragon-on-Kew-Pagoda-248x300.jpg 248w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSCN5911-New-Blue-Dragon-on-Kew-Pagoda-768x929.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSCN5911-New-Blue-Dragon-on-Kew-Pagoda.jpg 952w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6437\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Blue Dragon on Kew Pagoda<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the delights of walking in nature, or indeed in a botanic garden, is that you never know what surprises you may meet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[1370,790,1371,1368,1369],"class_list":["post-6431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-history","tag-dragon","tag-honey-bee","tag-kew-pagoda","tag-osage-orange","tag-wild-bees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6431"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6440,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6431\/revisions\/6440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}