{"id":651,"date":"2013-09-05T13:12:59","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T20:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/?page_id=651"},"modified":"2025-03-20T08:34:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T15:34:52","slug":"mountain-hemlock","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/hemlocks\/mountain-hemlock\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain Hemlock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/TSME1_lg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-652 alignleft\" alt=\"Mountain Hemlock\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/TSME1_lg-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/TSME1_lg-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/TSME1_lg.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Mountain Hemlock is possibly the least adaptable of the hemlocks. In its native habitat it attains a height of 50 to 90 feet, but it is slow growing and smaller under cultivation. The needles are a blue-green to gray-green color and give a bottle-brush effect by growing all around the stem. Cones are 1\/2 to 3 inches, cylindrical, hanging down from the branches and are purple when new. It thrives where the growing season is short and winters are long and cold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mountain Hemlock is possibly the least adaptable of the hemlocks. In its native habitat it attains a height of 50 to 90 feet, but it is slow growing and smaller under cultivation. The needles are a blue-green to gray-green&nbsp;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/hemlocks\/mountain-hemlock\/\">finish&nbsp;reading&nbsp;Mountain Hemlock<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652,"parent":639,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"trees_template.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-651","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/651","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=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2167,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/651\/revisions\/2167"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}