{"id":4126,"date":"2014-09-12T11:11:05","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T15:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/?p=4126"},"modified":"2014-09-12T17:19:06","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T21:19:06","slug":"get-to-know-your-bates-trees-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/2014\/09\/12\/get-to-know-your-bates-trees-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Get to Know Your Bates Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sugar maple (<em>Acer saccharum<\/em>) with a northern tooth fungus (<em>Climacodon septentrionale<\/em>)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4127\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/files\/2014\/09\/Northern-tooth-fungus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4127\" class=\"wp-image-4127 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/files\/2014\/09\/Northern-tooth-fungus-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"Northern tooth fungus\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/files\/2014\/09\/Northern-tooth-fungus-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/files\/2014\/09\/Northern-tooth-fungus-295x166.jpg 295w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/files\/2014\/09\/Northern-tooth-fungus.jpg 502w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4127\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Acer saccharum<\/em> with <em>Climacodon septentrionale<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is not so much about sugar maple as it is about the amazing fungus on it.\u00a0 In the middle of the Quad is a large sugar maple with a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/botit.botany.wisc.edu\/toms_fungi\/feb2001.html\" target=\"_blank\">Northern Tooth Fungus (<\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/botit.botany.wisc.edu\/toms_fungi\/feb2001.html\" target=\"_blank\">Climacodon septentrionale<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/botit.botany.wisc.edu\/toms_fungi\/feb2001.html\" target=\"_blank\">)<\/a>.\u00a0 This fungus is parasitic and is predominantly found on maple trees, where it can compromise the mechanical strength of the trunk by causing heartrot.\u00a0 The latin name of the fungus describes a lot\u2026<em>climac<\/em> (G) A ladder; <em>odon<\/em> (G) A tooth; <em>septentrion<\/em> (L) Northern.\u00a0 So there you have it, the Northern Tooth Fungus, which is shaped like a ladder.<span style=\"color: black;font-weight: normal\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Posted by Brett Huggett<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sugar maple (Acer saccharum) with a northern tooth fungus (Climacodon septentrionale) This&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_prepend":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append_before_footer":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4136,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4126\/revisions\/4136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}