{"id":670,"date":"2013-09-05T13:20:50","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T20:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/?page_id=670"},"modified":"2025-03-20T08:34:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T15:34:52","slug":"snowbells-styrax","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/snowbells-styrax\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowbells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Snowbells are short trees with fragrant white or pale pink flowers that hang from the branches like little bells.<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"childPages\"><li><h2><span class=\"commonname\">Fragrant Snowbell<\/h2><span class=\"scientificNameValue\">Scientific name: Styrax obassia<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"childContent\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/IMG_0171.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1726 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/IMG_0171-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0171 fragrant snowbell\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/IMG_0171-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/IMG_0171.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/IMG_0170.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1725 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/IMG_0170-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0170 fragrant snowbell\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/IMG_0170-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/IMG_0170.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> This tree is very similar to the Japanese snowbell, but it has more fragrant flowers.<br \/>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/snowbells-styrax\/fragrant-snowbell\/\">View tree page and map.<\/a><\/p><\/li><li><h2><span class=\"commonname\">Japanese Snowbell<\/h2><span class=\"scientificNameValue\">Scientific name: Styrax japonicus<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"childContent\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/IMG_0402-japanese-snowbell-e1409153995454.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1768 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/IMG_0402-japanese-snowbell-e1409153995454-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0402 japanese snowbell\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/IMG_0402-japanese-snowbell-e1409153995454-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/IMG_0402-japanese-snowbell-e1409153995454-764x1024.jpg 764w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/IMG_0402-japanese-snowbell-e1409153995454.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/IMG_0403-japanese-snowbell-e1409154047250.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1770 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/IMG_0403-japanese-snowbell-e1409154047250-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0403 japanese snowbell\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/IMG_0403-japanese-snowbell-e1409154047250-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/IMG_0403-japanese-snowbell-e1409154047250-764x1024.jpg 764w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/IMG_0403-japanese-snowbell-e1409154047250.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a>This tree originated in Japan and China. It is a small, flowering tree that never exceeds 50 feet. In June it bears small pendulous white flowers that resemble bells, and in the fall these flowers turn into attractive olive-shaped fruit.<br \/>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/snowbells-styrax\/japanese-snowbell\/\">View tree page and map.<\/a><\/p><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snowbells are short trees with fragrant white or pale pink flowers that hang from the branches like little bells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"trees_template.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-670","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/670","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=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1856,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/670\/revisions\/1856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}