{"id":15582,"date":"2016-05-16T21:08:25","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T21:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=15582"},"modified":"2016-05-16T21:08:25","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T21:08:25","slug":"lifestyle-plant-identification-from-field-guide-black-twinberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/lifestyle-plant-identification-from-field-guide-black-twinberry\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifestyle:  plant identification from field guide:  black twinberry"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The tutor shares another field find.<\/h1>\n<p>Sunday, I took my sons (11 and 13) for a walk in the nearby woods.  I had a couple of plants in mind to find, but found neither.  However, I did identify a couple of other plants instead.<\/p>\n<p>Standing in a very wet patch of forest through which a creek divides into many separate courses, I noticed a curved shrub with light-grey furrowed bark and black berries that were presented on red leaves.  The other leaves weren&#8217;t red &#8211; just those behind the berries.  The berries always appeared in twos.<\/p>\n<p>At home, finding the shrub in the guide might have been the easiest look-up ever:  it&#8217;s the black twinberry.  The black twinberry is abundant on the west coast along streams, swamps, and marshes.<\/p>\n<p>HTH:)<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Pojar, Jim and Andy MacKinnon.  <u>Plants of Coastal British Columbia<\/u>.  Vancouver:<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;BC Ministry of Forests and Lone Pine Publishing, 1994.<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tutor shares another field find. Sunday, I took my sons (11 and 13) for a walk in the nearby woods. I had a couple of plants in mind to find, but found neither. However, I did identify a couple &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/lifestyle-plant-identification-from-field-guide-black-twinberry\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lifestyle:  plant identification from field guide:  black twinberry<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[779,181],"tags":[1603,1552],"class_list":["post-15582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botany","category-lifestyle","tag-black-twinberry","tag-plant-identification-from-field-guide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15582"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15589,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15582\/revisions\/15589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}