{"id":46349,"date":"2014-07-25T10:19:54","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T14:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=46349"},"modified":"2014-07-25T10:23:53","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T14:23:53","slug":"morning-eye-candy-big-as-an-elephants-ear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2014\/07\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-big-as-an-elephants-ear\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Eye Candy: Big as an Elephant&#8217;s Ear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They don&#8217;t call them elephant ears without reason. Big and bright enough to make the flowers insecure, the <em>Colocasia<\/em> in the <a title=\"Home Gardening Center\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/gardens\/home-gardening\/\">Home Gardening Center<\/a> are of the genus responsible for the edible taro root. Not that you should head right out with a spade and start digging them up in your own yard\u2014they can be poisonous if not prepared correctly!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/MEC-Colocasia.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"46350\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2014\/07\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-big-as-an-elephants-ear\/attachment\/mec-colocasia\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/MEC-Colocasia.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1000,667\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&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;1405953603&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;245&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;320&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.001&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Colocasia\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/MEC-Colocasia-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/MEC-Colocasia.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46350\" alt=\"Colocasia\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/MEC-Colocasia.jpg\" width=\"570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/MEC-Colocasia.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/MEC-Colocasia-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Colocasia<\/em> in the Home Gardening Center \u2013 Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colocasia covers the bases between beauty and edibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":46350,"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":[2684,4098,4669,1512,4640],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/MEC-Colocasia.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-c3z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46349"}],"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=46349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46352,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46349\/revisions\/46352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}