{"id":32322,"date":"2013-01-17T06:00:56","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T11:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=32322"},"modified":"2013-01-17T09:26:25","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T14:26:25","slug":"morning-eye-candy-streamers-starfish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2013\/01\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-streamers-starfish\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Eye Candy: Streamers &amp; Starfish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whether it grabs you as reminiscent of a whispy starfish or a snarl of streamers, this wine-hued curiosity is worth a second look. You won&#8217;t catch <em>Herrania balaensis<\/em> growing beyond the borders of Ecuador, and even there it&#8217;s a rarity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2013\/01\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-streamers-starfish\/attachment\/mec-herrania-balaensis-var-pouess-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32414\"><img data-attachment-id=\"32414\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2013\/01\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-streamers-starfish\/attachment\/mec-herrania-balaensis-var-pouess-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/MEC-Herrania-balaensis-var.-pouess1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1199,1668\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D700&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1357208999&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;105&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Herrania balaensis var. pouess\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/MEC-Herrania-balaensis-var.-pouess1-215x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/MEC-Herrania-balaensis-var.-pouess1-736x1024.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-32414\" alt=\"Herrania balaensis var. pouess\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/MEC-Herrania-balaensis-var.-pouess1-736x1024.jpg\" width=\"515\" height=\"717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/MEC-Herrania-balaensis-var.-pouess1-736x1024.jpg 736w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/MEC-Herrania-balaensis-var.-pouess1-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/MEC-Herrania-balaensis-var.-pouess1.jpg 1199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Herrania balaensis var. pouess<\/em> &#8212; Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An oddity to some, a beauty to most, a rarity to everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":32326,"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":[4671,2971,2970,1512],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/MEC-Herrania-balaensis-var.-pouess.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-8pk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32322"}],"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=32322"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32416,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32322\/revisions\/32416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}