{"id":4225,"date":"2014-09-26T16:01:53","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T20:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/?p=4225"},"modified":"2014-09-26T16:06:06","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T20:06:06","slug":"get-to-know-your-bates-trees-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/2014\/09\/26\/get-to-know-your-bates-trees-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Get to Know Your Bates Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lowly Mugo pine (<em>Pinus mugo<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/files\/2014\/09\/mugo-pine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4226 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/files\/2014\/09\/mugo-pine-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/files\/2014\/09\/mugo-pine-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/files\/2014\/09\/mugo-pine.jpg 504w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This shrub-like pine tree is rather common on campus.\u00a0 Unlike natives in the Alps that grow up to 80\u2019 tall, Mugo pine (<em>Pinus mugo<\/em>) rarely exceeds 10\u2019 in this region.\u00a0 Identification includes needles of 2\u201d in length existing in 2 needles per bundle (or fascicle).\u00a0 While sap has reportedly been used for medicinal and culinary uses, terpene in the needles can act as a growth suppressant in preventing germination of other plants within the vicinity of an individual Mugo pine.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;font-weight: normal\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Posted by Brett Huggett<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lowly Mugo pine (Pinus mugo) &nbsp; This shrub-like pine tree is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":480,"featured_media":4226,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225","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\/480"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4227,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225\/revisions\/4227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}