{"id":17707,"date":"2016-09-07T03:38:57","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T03:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=17707"},"modified":"2016-09-07T03:49:26","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T03:49:26","slug":"lifestyle-remote-tree-identification-american-sycamore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/lifestyle-remote-tree-identification-american-sycamore\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifestyle:  remote tree identification:  American sycamore"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The tutor shares a nice find from his walk home today:  an American sycamore tree.<\/h1>\n<p>Sometimes, identifying a tree, one can&#8217;t get so close as one might like:  the tree might be on private property, so the viewer can&#8217;t inspect it close-up.  Yet, the tree might have distinguishing characteristics that can be identified from across the street.  So it is with the American sycamore.<\/p>\n<p>The American sycamore has maple-like leaves, but its fruit are hanging balls (called <em>buttonballs<\/em>).  Specifically, the American variety has one ball per hanging stem.  Also, the marginal clefts of American sycamore leaves are much shallower than those of other varieties I&#8217;ve read about.<\/p>\n<p>There we have it:  a local ID of an American sycamore:)<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Brockman, Frank and Rebecca Merrilees.  <u>Trees of North America<\/u>.  New York:  Golden Press, 1968.<\/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 a nice find from his walk home today: an American sycamore tree. Sometimes, identifying a tree, one can&#8217;t get so close as one might like: the tree might be on private property, so the viewer can&#8217;t inspect &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/lifestyle-remote-tree-identification-american-sycamore\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lifestyle:  remote tree identification:  American sycamore<\/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":[1870,974],"class_list":["post-17707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botany","category-lifestyle","tag-american-sycamore","tag-tree-identification-from-a-field-guide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17707","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=17707"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17716,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17707\/revisions\/17716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}