{"id":20,"date":"2010-09-07T06:38:12","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T14:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/trees\/?p=20"},"modified":"2010-09-07T06:38:12","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T14:38:12","slug":"arbutus-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/trees\/2010\/09\/07\/arbutus-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Arbutus Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/crmenzies\/sets\/72157624900949014\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-21\" title=\"IMG_1091\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/trees\/files\/2010\/09\/IMG_1091-e1283869618184-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/trees\/files\/2010\/09\/IMG_1091-e1283869618184-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/trees\/files\/2010\/09\/IMG_1091-e1283869618184-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/trees\/files\/2010\/09\/IMG_1091-e1283869618184.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> At the north west corner of Agronomy Road and Main Mall stands a grand old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.for.gov.bc.ca\/hfd\/library\/documents\/treebook\/arbutus.htm\" target=\"_blank\">arbutus tree<\/a>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s an impressive example. There are few such trees found at UBC these days -more were likely here in the past.<\/p>\n<p>I first met arbutus trees on summer visits south from my childhood home on BC&#8217;s north coast.\u00a0 For those more acquainted with temperate rainforest conifers the arbutus tree is a surprising plant -peeling paper-thin bark, twisting smooth branches, and leaves all winter when other broad-leaf trees drop theirs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the north west corner of Agronomy Road and Main Mall stands a grand old arbutus tree.\u00a0 It&#8217;s an impressive example. There are few such trees found at UBC these days -more were likely here in the past. I first &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/trees\/2010\/09\/07\/arbutus-tree\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":369,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/369"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}