{"id":10395,"date":"2023-06-11T22:01:55","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T02:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=10395"},"modified":"2023-06-30T11:39:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T15:39:38","slug":"tiny-flower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2023\/06\/tiny-flower\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny flower"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Medeola virginiana, sometimes called Cucumber Root or <a href=\"https:\/\/gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org\/species\/medeola\/virginiana\/\">Indian Cucumber-root,<\/a> is in bloom in the woodlands around Cohasset right now. As the name implies, the small root is crunchy and white and tastes like cucumber \u2014 but you kill the plant when you dig it up for the root, so I stopped foraging for it many years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The flower is tiny, maybe a centimeter or two across. It doesn&#8217;t look like much until you look at it through a magnifier:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_8740-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Close up of a tiny flower, with a deep red pistil that terminates in three parts that are longer than the petals, and with greenish-yellow petals that curl back from the ovary.\" class=\"wp-image-10396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_8740-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_8740-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_8740-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_8740-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_8740-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_8740-1200x1200.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_8740.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Front view of Indian Cucumber-root flower through 10x hand lens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_8735-1-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Same flower as previous photo, but a side view.\" class=\"wp-image-10397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_8735-1-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_8735-1-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_8735-1-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_8735-1-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_8735-1-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_8735-1-1200x1200.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_8735-1.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Side view of Indian Cucumber-root flower through 10s hand lens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medeola virginiana, sometimes called Cucumber Root or Indian Cucumber-root, is in bloom in the woodlands around Cohasset right now. As the name implies, the small root is crunchy and white and tastes like cucumber \u2014 but you kill the plant when you dig it up for the root, so I stopped foraging for it many &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2023\/06\/tiny-flower\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tiny flower&#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":[945,845],"tags":[939],"class_list":["post-10395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-se-massachusetts","tag-wildflowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10395"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10400,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10395\/revisions\/10400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}