{"id":2656,"date":"2013-06-01T18:16:39","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T10:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=2656"},"modified":"2013-06-01T18:16:39","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T10:16:39","slug":"lovely-lomandra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/01\/lovely-lomandra\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovely Lomandra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130524-011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2495\" alt=\"20130524 011\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130524-011-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130524-011-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130524-011.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The flowers are tiny on the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendsofqueensparkbushland.org.au\/lomandra-nigricans\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lomandra Nigricans<\/a><\/em> or Dark Mat Rush. When the buds\u00a0first appear they look like mini lily-of-the-valley. \u00a0They are scattered throughout the forest and provide a delicate backdrop for all the <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/category\/wildlife\/fungi\/\">fat fungi<\/a> popping up and a nice contrast to the <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/16\/holly-leaved-hovea\/\">purple hovea<\/a>. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boffinsbookshop.com.au\/books\/9780957781702\/colour-guide-to-spring-wildflowers-of-western-australia\" target=\"_blank\">Dr Eddy Wajon<\/a> in his flower guide describes them as white, scented, tubular flowers 5mm long in closely spaced rings round stem in a flower spike 5-15cm long. \u00a0 It is a perennial herb in the family Asparagaceae and there are 50 species, all native to Australia. Interestingly, there are separate and distinct male and female plants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The flowers are tiny on the Lomandra Nigricans or Dark Mat Rush. When the buds\u00a0first appear they look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[21,19,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130524-011.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2656"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2747,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656\/revisions\/2747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}