{"id":278,"date":"2007-06-24T14:51:09","date_gmt":"2007-06-24T18:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2007\/06\/24\/wachusett-mountain\/"},"modified":"2007-06-24T14:51:09","modified_gmt":"2007-06-24T18:51:09","slug":"wachusett-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2007\/06\/24\/wachusett-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"Wachusett Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This trip was more about hiking than naturalizing, but I busted out the books during one rest break.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Red Elderberry (<i>Sambucus pubens<\/i>) (honeysuckle family) &#8211; Growing all over.  Delicious!  I only sampled a couple, since my books didn&#8217;t really say anything either way about their edibility. But they were awesome in small quantity, and it&#8217;s always nice to have more wild nibbles.  I could even see these, given how plentiful and tasty they are, being a nice jelly choice.\n<p>Wikipedia has <i>Sambucus<\/i> in the newfangled moschatel family (adoxaceae), according to modern genetic evidence.  It looks like that&#8217;s how the viburnums roll these days too.  But I have them in the caprifoliaceae here for consistency, since I&#8217;ve been giving family names from Newcomb&#8217;s; I find an antiquarian charm in learning plants with the old-fashioned taxonomy, and I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll also pick up the new stuff as I go along.<\/li>\n<li>Fringed Bindweed (<i>Polygonum cilinode<\/i>) (buckwheat family) &#8211; I hate to deprecate one of God&#8217;s creations, but to my eye this was just another charmless polygonaceous bindweed, distinguished mainly by how common it was along the trails.  The convolvulaceous bindweeds rock harder.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This trip was more about hiking than naturalizing, but I busted out the books during one rest break. Red Elderberry (Sambucus pubens) (honeysuckle family) &#8211; Growing all over. Delicious! I only sampled a couple, since my books didn&#8217;t really say anything either way about their edibility. But they were awesome in small quantity, and it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[407],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}