{"id":21389,"date":"2012-03-25T06:00:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-25T10:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=21389"},"modified":"2012-03-22T10:38:38","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T14:38:38","slug":"morning-eye-candy-first-lady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2012\/03\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-first-lady\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Eye Candy: First Lady"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sliver of trivia: this flowering cherry hybrid was developed at the <a title=\"U.S. National Arboretum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usna.usda.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. National Arboretum<\/a> in D.C. by the prolific Dr. Donald Egolf, back in 1982. However, it wasn&#8217;t until 2003 that &#8216;First Lady&#8217; made its way onto the horticulture scene at large. It boasts the abundant flowers and hardiness of the mother plant, &#8216;Okame,&#8217; with the coloration of its father, the Taiwan flowering cherry (<em>P. campanulata<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>I suppose it also technically shares its birthday with <em>Tron<\/em>, <em>Bladerunner<\/em>, and <em>Conan the Barbarian<\/em>. It&#8217;s not like I was going to give you a dossier without a few oddball connections tacked on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/MEC-Prunus-First-Lady-04.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"21390\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2012\/03\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-first-lady\/attachment\/mec-prunus-first-lady-04\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/MEC-Prunus-First-Lady-04.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2000,3006\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D700&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1332148443&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;105&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;320&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.000625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Prunus &#8216;First Lady&#8217;\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/MEC-Prunus-First-Lady-04-199x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/MEC-Prunus-First-Lady-04-681x1024.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-21390\" title=\"Prunus 'First Lady'\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/MEC-Prunus-First-Lady-04-681x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"796\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/MEC-Prunus-First-Lady-04-681x1024.jpg 681w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/MEC-Prunus-First-Lady-04-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/MEC-Prunus-First-Lady-04.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Prunus<\/em> &#8216;First Lady&#8217; &#8212; Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s fitting that a hybrid known as &#8216;First Lady&#8217; was born in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":21390,"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":[2301,2302,1512],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/MEC-Prunus-First-Lady-04.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-5yZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21389"}],"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=21389"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21394,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21389\/revisions\/21394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}