{"id":2652,"date":"2020-09-07T11:12:14","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T11:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fsccmn.com\/?p=2652"},"modified":"2020-09-07T11:12:14","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T11:12:14","slug":"xanthorrhoea-flowering-after-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/?p=2652","title":{"rendered":"Xanthorrhoea Flowering After Fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2654\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fsccmn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Xanthorrhoea-2-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Xanthorrhoea 2\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Xanthorrhoea-2-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Xanthorrhoea-2-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Xanthorrhoea-2.jpeg 1134w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>Over the weekend, local residents visited these beautiful <em>Xanthorrhoea<\/em> or Grass Trees which are in flower now in the forest in Wandella,\u00a0burnt in the recent summer fires.<\/p>\n<p><i>Xanthorrhoea<\/i> are often very long-lived; some are estimated to be 350-450 years old. Studies of species that develop tall trunks indicate that increase in trunk height is mostly slow, about 0.8-6 cm per year. They flower\u00a0in spirally arranged clusters (see the close up image below).<\/p>\n<p>Bush Heritage Australia explains that &#8220;many species have an amazing ability to survive fire. A fire may burn their leaves and blacken their trunks, but the trees usually survive: the living growth-point is buried underground, protected by tightly packed leaf bases.\u00a0In fact, some grass trees are stimulated by fire \u2013 in the spring after a summer bushfire, large numbers of plants can flower.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bushheritage.org.au\/species\/grass-trees\" target=\"_blank\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">read more about <em>Xanthorrhoea<\/em><\/a> in this Bush Heritage Australia story.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to Thea Constantaridis for sharing these beautiful photos.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2655\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fsccmn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Xanthorrhoea-3-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Xanthorrhoea 3\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Xanthorrhoea-3-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Xanthorrhoea-3-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Xanthorrhoea-3.jpeg 1134w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2653\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fsccmn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Xanthorrhoea-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Xanthorrhoea 1\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Xanthorrhoea-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Xanthorrhoea-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Xanthorrhoea-1.jpg 1134w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, local residents visited these beautiful Xanthorrhoea or Grass Trees which are in flower now in the forest in Wandella,\u00a0burnt in the recent summer fires. Xanthorrhoea are often very long-lived; some are estimated to be 350-450 years old. Studies of species that develop tall trunks indicate that increase in trunk height is mostly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,176,13,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2652"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2657,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652\/revisions\/2657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}