{"id":20437,"date":"2012-03-02T09:17:52","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T14:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=20437"},"modified":"2012-03-02T09:18:53","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T14:18:53","slug":"morning-eye-candy-monks-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2012\/03\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-monks-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Eye Candy: Monk&#8217;s Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strange how a hue so ubiquitous in the plant world can have such a striking effect when painted on a flower. The green-yellow chartreuse color seen in this hellebore is so named for its resemblance to the centuries-old liqueur of the same name made by the Carthusian monks of France. Maybe a useless crumb of trivia <em>now<\/em>, but imagine how many miles you&#8217;ll get out of it during pre-dinner aperitifs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Helleborus-x-nigercors-Honeyhill-Joy-06.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"20438\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2012\/03\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-monks-green\/attachment\/helleborus-x-nigercors-honeyhill-joy-06\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Helleborus-x-nigercors-Honeyhill-Joy-06.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2000,1331\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D700&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1330428835&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;105&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;250&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.000625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Helleborus x nigercors &#8216;Honeyhill Joy&#8217;\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Helleborus-x-nigercors-Honeyhill-Joy-06-300x199.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Helleborus-x-nigercors-Honeyhill-Joy-06-1024x681.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-20438\" title=\"Helleborus x nigercors 'Honeyhill Joy'\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Helleborus-x-nigercors-Honeyhill-Joy-06-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Helleborus-x-nigercors-Honeyhill-Joy-06-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Helleborus-x-nigercors-Honeyhill-Joy-06-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Helleborus-x-nigercors-Honeyhill-Joy-06.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Helleborus x nigercors<\/em> &#8216;Honeyhill Joy&#8217; &#8212; Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The color of this hellebore has a history in&#8211;oddly enough&#8211;liquor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":20438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[952,146],"tags":[2219,1512],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Helleborus-x-nigercors-Honeyhill-Joy-06.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-5jD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20437"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20440,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20437\/revisions\/20440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}