{"id":90,"date":"2005-05-15T15:24:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-15T22:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/fire\/2005\/05\/15\/foothill-paloverdes\/"},"modified":"2006-07-09T16:42:06","modified_gmt":"2006-07-09T23:42:06","slug":"foothill-paloverdes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2005\/05\/15\/foothill-paloverdes\/","title":{"rendered":"Foothill Paloverdes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paloverdes are now blooming here in Tucson, and the most common of these green-barked, desert trees is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/1847\/parkinsonia-microphylla-yellow-paloverde\/\">Yellow or Foothill Paloverde (Parkinsonia microphylla)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2005\/May\/paloverde.jpg\" alt=\"Yellow or Foothill Paloverde (Parkinsonia microphylla)\" title=\"Yellow or Foothill Paloverde (Parkinsonia microphylla)\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Foothill Paloverdes bloom so heavily and are so abundant on hillsides here that they paint the Tucson foothills a buttery yellow when they are flowering. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/1841\/parkinsonia-florida-blue-paloverde\/\">Blue Paloverde (Parkinsonia florida)<\/a> with its more brilliant yellow flowers is usually found growing in desert washes. The naturalized <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/1833\/parkinsonia-aculeata-jerusalem-thorn\/\">Mexican Paloverde (Parkinsonia aculeata)<\/a> is commonly found growing wild in desert washes or along roadsides.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2005\/May\/paloverdes-wide.jpg\" alt=\"Yellow or Foothill Paloverde (Parkinsonia microphylla) blooming in the desert west of Tucson, Arizona\" title=\"Yellow or Foothill Paloverde (Parkinsonia microphylla)\" width=\"480\" height=\"253\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paloverdes are now blooming here in Tucson, and the most common of these green-barked, desert trees is the Yellow or Foothill Paloverde (Parkinsonia microphylla). Foothill Paloverdes bloom so heavily and are so abundant on hillsides here that they paint the Tucson foothills a buttery yellow when they are flowering. Blue Paloverde (Parkinsonia florida) with its&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2005\/05\/15\/foothill-paloverdes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More &rarr; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona-wild-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}