{"id":1850,"date":"2010-04-10T19:53:59","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T23:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iomaire.com\/?p=1850"},"modified":"2010-04-10T19:59:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T23:59:21","slug":"putty-root","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/10\/putty-root\/","title":{"rendered":"Putty Root"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Putty Root is a terrestrial orchid &#8211; it is also called the Adam &#038; Eve plant.  This is because there are a pair of corms in the ground &#8211; Adam and Eve.  One way to propagate the plant is to cut the corms apart and plant the older one.  But the plant produces a corm every year, so this shouldn&#8217;t be necessary.  After a number of years, you will have a cluster of the plants.  The other common name, Putty Root, is derived from the fact that a mucilaginous substance can be obtained from the crushed corm.  This sticky substance was used by the Native Americans to repair broken pottery.  A solitary leaf (shown below) arises in late summer or autumn and remains over the winter.  In the spring, the flower stalk springs up next to the leaf.<\/p>\n<p>Putty Root (<em>aplectrum hyemale<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Putty-Root.jpg\" alt=\"Putty Root.jpg\" border=\"2\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since this plant doesn&#8217;t have a flower stalk yet, I&#8217;ve gone to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtnwildflowers.com\/heher.html\">Mountain Wildflowers<\/a> website and borrowed one of their pictures.  I&#8217;ll have to visit in early May next year to take a photograph of the flower stalk.  That is, if I can remember where the plant is!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Adam-Eve-flower1.jpg\" alt=\"Adam &#038; Eve flower.jpg\" border=\"2\" width=\"263\" height=\"351\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Putty Root is a terrestrial orchid &#8211; it is also called the Adam &#038; Eve plant. This is because there are a pair of corms in the ground &#8211; Adam and Eve. One way to propagate the plant is <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/10\/putty-root\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,23,80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1850"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1854,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850\/revisions\/1854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}