{"id":87,"date":"2013-08-26T15:52:13","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T22:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/trees\/?page_id=87"},"modified":"2025-03-20T08:34:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T15:34:52","slug":"american-basswood-basswood","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/lindens-basswoods\/american-basswood-basswood\/","title":{"rendered":"American Basswood \/ Basswood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/08\/TIAM1_lg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-412 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/08\/TIAM1_lg-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"American Basswood \/ Basswood\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/08\/TIAM1_lg-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/08\/TIAM1_lg.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/08\/TIAM2_lg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-413 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/08\/TIAM2_lg-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"American Basswood \/ Basswood\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/08\/TIAM2_lg-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/08\/TIAM2_lg.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A deciduous native from New Brunswick to Virginia and west to Texas, the American basswood has small, fragrant, yellowish-white flowers in pendulous clusters suspended from bracts that bloom from June to July. This tree grows to 40-60 feet with a 20-25 foot spread. The trunk is straight and the foliage is dense. The leaves are huge compared to other lindens and they are bright green above and below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A deciduous native from New Brunswick to Virginia and west to Texas, the American basswood has small, fragrant, yellowish-white flowers in pendulous clusters suspended from bracts that bloom from June to July. This tree grows to 40-60 feet with a&nbsp;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/lindens-basswoods\/american-basswood-basswood\/\">finish&nbsp;reading&nbsp;American Basswood \/ Basswood<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412,"parent":85,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"trees_template.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-87","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87","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=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1644,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87\/revisions\/1644"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}