{"id":32787,"date":"2016-07-17T20:56:28","date_gmt":"2016-07-17T08:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=32787"},"modified":"2016-07-17T20:56:28","modified_gmt":"2016-07-17T08:56:28","slug":"meeting-a-remarkable-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/07\/17\/meeting-a-remarkable-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting A Remarkable Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently a stroll through Auckland&#8217;s Cornwall Park led to a meeting with today&#8217;s tree, a <em>Quercus canariensis<\/em>, alternatively known as Mirbeck&#8217;s oak or an Algerian oak.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently it hails from the Iberian peninsula (Spain and Portugal) and the Tunisia-Morocco-Algerian region of North Africa.<\/p>\n<p>You can read a little more about the tree <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cornwallpark.co.nz\/tree-trail\/tree-trail-algerian-oak.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, but the plaque beneath it states that it is <em>&#8220;the finest oak tree in Cornwall Park.&#8221;<\/em> (Or words to like effect.)<\/p>\n<p>Although I have insufficient knowledge of the Park&#8217;s oaks to be so absolute, I certainly felt as though I were meeting a remarkable tree.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/07\/17\/meeting-a-remarkable-tree\/algerian-oak_2a\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32788\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-32788\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Algerian-oak_2a.jpg\" alt=\"Algerian oak_2a\" width=\"712\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Algerian-oak_2a.jpg 832w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Algerian-oak_2a-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Algerian-oak_2a-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 712px) 100vw, 712px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently a stroll through Auckland&#8217;s Cornwall Park led to a meeting with today&#8217;s tree, a Quercus canariensis, alternatively known as Mirbeck&#8217;s oak or an Algerian oak. Apparently it hails from the Iberian peninsula (Spain and Portugal) and the Tunisia-Morocco-Algerian region of North Africa. You can read a little more about the tree here, but the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32787"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32792,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32787\/revisions\/32792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}