{"id":43918,"date":"2014-03-19T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T10:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=43918"},"modified":"2014-03-18T16:10:40","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T20:10:40","slug":"morning-eye-candy-paper-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2014\/03\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-paper-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Eye Candy: Paper Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"Ladies' Border\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/gardens\/ladies-border\">Ladies&#8217; Border<\/a> shows immeasurable spring promise right now, what with these fuzzy wonders just beginning their bloom. It&#8217;s often referred to as oriental paperbush, though I personally prefer the alternate: &#8220;Mitsumata.&#8221; It&#8217;s one of the plant species used in the making of the Japanese tissue paper of the same name.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MEC-Edgeworthia-chrysantha.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"43919\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2014\/03\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-paper-flowers\/attachment\/mec-edgeworthia-chrysantha\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MEC-Edgeworthia-chrysantha.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1300,867\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;thebluroffice&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1394793081&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;500&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.001&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Edgeworthia chrysantha\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MEC-Edgeworthia-chrysantha-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MEC-Edgeworthia-chrysantha-1024x682.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-43919\" alt=\"Edgeworthia chrysantha\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MEC-Edgeworthia-chrysantha-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MEC-Edgeworthia-chrysantha-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MEC-Edgeworthia-chrysantha-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MEC-Edgeworthia-chrysantha.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Edgeworthia chrysantha<\/em> in the <a title=\"Ladies' Border\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/gardens\/ladies-border\">Ladies&#8217; Border<\/a> \u2013 Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its use in Japanese tissue paper earned this beautiful spring bloomer its name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":43919,"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":[146],"tags":[1369,1082,3833,1512,3834,4631],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MEC-Edgeworthia-chrysantha.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-bqm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43918"}],"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=43918"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43921,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43918\/revisions\/43921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}