{"id":5392,"date":"2017-07-15T22:52:25","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T05:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=5392"},"modified":"2017-07-15T22:52:25","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T05:52:25","slug":"crassula-and-hydathodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=5392","title":{"rendered":"Crassula and Hydathodes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently reading Fred Dortort\u2019s book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Timber-Press-Guide-Succulent-Plants\/dp\/0881929956\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1500170962&#038;sr=8-1&#038;keywords=fred+dortort\n\" >The Timber Press Guide to Succulent Plants of the World: A Comprehensive Reference to More than 2000 Species<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The book is filled with interesting information and loads of gorgeous images of plants. I was curious about hydathodes. The description from the book follows: <i> their leaves are dotted with hydathodes, a kind of pore that enables wet-growing plants to expel water, but which dry-growing crassulas have reversed, turning them into water-absorbing organs.<\/i> <\/p>\n<p>I can visualize, but what do hydathodes really look like? <\/p>\n<p>When I was editing photos for a previous post, I noticed what appeared to be pin pricks on the leaves of my new addition, a Crassula capitella Red Pagoda. <\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centered\" src=\"\/images\/CrassulaHydathodes_IMG_1575.jpg\" alt=\"Red Pagoda\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Example of Hydathodes on Crassula capitella Red Pagoda<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>It is exciting to read something interesting and then to see an example of it in person.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"hrVisible\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently reading Fred Dortort\u2019s book, The Timber Press Guide to Succulent Plants of the World: A Comprehensive Reference to More than 2000 Species. The book is filled with interesting information and loads of gorgeous images of plants. I was curious about hydathodes. The description from the book follows: their leaves are dotted with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=5392\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Crassula and Hydathodes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-nature","category-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5392"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5400,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5392\/revisions\/5400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}