{"id":38,"date":"2007-02-11T18:52:15","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T01:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=38"},"modified":"2007-03-27T04:21:05","modified_gmt":"2007-03-27T11:21:05","slug":"weird-willows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"Weird Willows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"images\/willowlg.jpg\"><img ALT=\"weird willow stem\" SRC=\"images\/willowx500.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nLarger image.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This stem is from a shrubby willow I started from a cutting a couple of years ago.  It&#8217;s a 6-foot-tall and -wide specimen now, with at least a dozen of the terminal stems flattened and &#8216;hyper-budded&#8217; like this.  Weird.<\/p>\n<p>I asked one of our woody plant people and she said it&#8217;s a genetic thing, and that they&#8217;re used in dried flower arrangements.  I&#8217;d also heard from another source that this might also be triggered by stress.  It&#8217;s along the road and gets a lot of salt, but I don&#8217;t know if that would count.<\/p>\n<p>I do plan to see what happens in spring when all those buds break, and also want to see what happens when I root a plant from one of these stems.  I&#8217;ll keep you posted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update: <\/strong> I saw a picture on another blog.  Forget the environmental cause.  It&#8217;s Japanese fantail willow (<em>Salix sachalinensis<\/em>). <\/p>\n<p><img ALT=\"Willow and Solidago stem arrangement.\" SRC=\"images\/willow_solidago.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nWillow and Solidago stem arrangement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larger image. This stem is from a shrubby willow I started from a cutting a couple of years ago. It&#8217;s a 6-foot-tall and -wide specimen now, with at least a dozen of the terminal stems flattened and &#8216;hyper-budded&#8217; like this. Weird. I asked one of our woody plant people and she said it&#8217;s a genetic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=38\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weird Willows&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-woodies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}