{"id":114,"date":"2013-08-27T14:03:20","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T21:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/trees\/?page_id=114"},"modified":"2025-03-20T08:34:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T15:34:52","slug":"red-alder","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/red-alder\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Alder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/08\/ALRU1_lg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-470 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/08\/ALRU1_lg-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Red Alder\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/08\/ALRU1_lg-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/08\/ALRU1_lg.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This native alder grows well in poor soil, and its roots can enrich the soil by fixing nitrogen. It is fast-growing to 75 feet. Under certain circumstances of clean air the bark of this tree provides a living to whitish lichens, thus making the bark look much like that of a birch. The tree does best in soil that is moist year around and is common around Crystal Springs Creek at the west end of the campus.<\/p>\n<p><b>Maps:<\/b>\u00a0Not currently found in any of the landscaped areas of campus, but widely planted in the canyon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This native alder grows well in poor soil, and its roots can enrich the soil by fixing nitrogen. It is fast-growing to 75 feet. Under certain circumstances of clean air the bark of this tree provides a living to whitish&nbsp;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/red-alder\/\">finish&nbsp;reading&nbsp;Red Alder<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"trees_template.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-114","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1432,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114\/revisions\/1432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}