{"id":15502,"date":"2015-11-11T08:55:48","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T16:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=15502"},"modified":"2015-11-12T04:56:11","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T12:56:11","slug":"carbon-antlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=15502","title":{"rendered":"Carbon antlers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The title, carbon antlers, is easy to misread as caribou antlers. Yet, they are not real antlers, but a fungus, <i>Xylaria hypoxylon,<\/i> that\u00a0grows on decaying wood. The common names, carbon antlers, stag&#8217;s antlers and candlestick fungus, come from the fruiting portion, which extends above the ground often in branched columns redolent of antlers or candlesticks.<\/p>\n<p>Carbon antlers grow amongst moss. Although they don&#8217;t look carbon black now, they will turn so at a later stage.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15503\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/fungusxylariahypoxylon151109s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The title, carbon antlers, is easy to misread as caribou antlers. Yet, they are not real antlers, but a fungus, Xylaria hypoxylon, that\u00a0grows on decaying wood. The common names, carbon antlers, stag&#8217;s antlers and candlestick fungus, come from the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=15502\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wildflowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15502"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15509,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15502\/revisions\/15509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}