{"id":760,"date":"2007-12-11T10:31:02","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T18:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/11\/a-white-african-daisy\/"},"modified":"2007-12-11T10:38:30","modified_gmt":"2007-12-11T18:38:30","slug":"a-white-african-daisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/11\/a-white-african-daisy\/","title":{"rendered":"A White African Daisy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/white-african.jpg\" title=\"white-african\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image761\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/white-african.jpg\" alt=\"white-african\" class=\"right\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a>Osteospermum fruticosum, also called the Trailing African Daisy or Shrubby Daisybush, is a shrubby, semi-succulent herbaceous flowering plant native to South Africa, belonging to the small tribe Calenduleae of the sunflower family (Asteraceae).<\/p>\n<p>It grows between 6 and 12 inches tall and can spread four to six feet in width. The dark-centered daisy-like flowers range in color from deep purple to white. Some hybrid growers have bred pale yellow-flowering strains. The plant is a perennial in mild climates.<\/p>\n<p>I took the photo of this nice white flower at the Botanic Garden on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Osteospermum fruticosum, also called the Trailing African Daisy or Shrubby Daisybush, is a shrubby, semi-succulent herbaceous flowering plant native to South Africa, belonging to the small&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pretty-stuff","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}