{"id":4320,"date":"2013-08-23T15:56:05","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T07:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=4320"},"modified":"2013-08-25T16:12:47","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T08:12:47","slug":"prickly-moses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/23\/prickly-moses\/","title":{"rendered":"Prickly Moses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130823-036.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4307\" alt=\"20130823 036\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130823-036-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130823-036-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130823-036.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au\/browse\/profile\/3502\" target=\"_blank\">Acacia pulchella<\/a>,\u00a0commonly known as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Acacia_pulchella\" target=\"_blank\">Prickly Moses<\/a>,\u00a0has erupted throughout the forest. Like the <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/18\/tree-hovea\/\">Hovea<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/13\/spring-springing\/\">Kennedia<\/a>, it\u00a0is in the family <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fabaceae\" target=\"_blank\">Fabaceae<\/a> and\u00a0it is one of only a small number of Acacia species to have leaves, rather than phyllodes (see the <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/15\/rib-wattle\/\">Acacia Nervosa<\/a>\u00a0or Rib Wattle). \u00a0According to Wikipedia, recent research suggests that Acacia pulchella is resistant to, and may actually suppress, the plant pathogen <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phytophthora_cinnamomi\" target=\"_blank\">Phytophthora <\/a>cinnamomi which causes dieback in Jarrah forests. \u00a0Pulchella means beautiful, which it certainly is and the Moses probably comes from Mimosas&#8230;&#8230; which was the old group name for them before they were grouped as Acacias or Wattles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acacia pulchella,\u00a0commonly known as Prickly Moses,\u00a0has erupted throughout the forest. Like the Hovea and Kennedia, it\u00a0is in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,19,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flowers","category-property","category-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130823-036.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=4320"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4354,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4320\/revisions\/4354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}