{"id":1799,"date":"2025-05-08T12:12:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T17:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/?p=1799"},"modified":"2025-05-08T12:12:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T17:12:32","slug":"petals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/2025\/05\/petals\/","title":{"rendered":"Petals"},"content":{"rendered":"

The feel of silk between finger\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

and thumb, a delicate wash of pink\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

so easily torn, after a brief\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

efflorescence destined to wilt.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

They form part of the corolla,<\/span><\/p>\n

a eudicot with four or five,<\/span><\/p>\n

or monocot with three or six,<\/span><\/p>\n

surrounding reproductive parts,<\/span><\/p>\n

stamen and stigma, brightly coloured\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

or unusually shaped, with a symmetry<\/span><\/p>\n

bi-lateral or radial, regular\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

if identical in size and shape.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sepals and tepals make the calyx,<\/span><\/p>\n

protecting and supporting the bud,<\/span><\/p>\n

like a whorl of arms enfolding you.<\/span><\/p>\n

The flowers compete to attract the bees,<\/span><\/p>\n

butterflies, beetles, wasps, and moths<\/span><\/p>\n

with sweet scents and ultraviolet guides,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

or a smell of rotting meat to bring the flies.<\/span><\/p>\n

Size matters \u2014 big flowers<\/span><\/p>\n

attract the larger pollinators,<\/span><\/p>\n

humming birds and honey eaters,<\/span><\/p>\n

monkeys, lizards, gliders, bats,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

lemurs, possums, even rats.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The feel of silk between finger\u00a0 and thumb, a delicate wash of pink\u00a0 so easily torn, after a brief\u00a0 efflorescence destined to wilt.\u00a0 They form<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1800,"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions\/1800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}