{"id":321,"date":"2013-08-29T11:46:22","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T18:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/trees\/?page_id=321"},"modified":"2025-03-20T08:34:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T15:34:52","slug":"whitebarked-himalayan-birch","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/birches\/whitebarked-himalayan-birch\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitebarked Himalayan Birch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/08\/BEJA1_lg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-372 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/08\/BEJA1_lg-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Whitebarked Himalayan Birch\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/08\/BEJA1_lg-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/08\/BEJA1_lg.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/08\/BEJA2_lg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-373 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/08\/BEJA2_lg-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Whitebarked Himalayan Birch\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/08\/BEJA2_lg-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/08\/BEJA2_lg.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This tree, which has the whitest bark of any birch, grows naturally in the western Himalayas. The species name was given to honor Victor Jacquemont, a French naturalist who spent four years traveling and collecting in that area in the 1800s. Some books list this tree as a variety of the Himalayan birch,\u00a0<i>Betula utilis<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This tree, which has the whitest bark of any birch, grows naturally in the western Himalayas. The species name was given to honor Victor Jacquemont, a French naturalist who spent four years traveling and collecting in that area in the&nbsp;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/birches\/whitebarked-himalayan-birch\/\">finish&nbsp;reading&nbsp;Whitebarked Himalayan Birch<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372,"parent":318,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"trees_template.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-321","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/321","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=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1620,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/321\/revisions\/1620"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}