{"id":28529,"date":"2011-02-01T08:22:09","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T13:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=28529"},"modified":"2011-01-31T09:07:35","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T14:07:35","slug":"dreaming-of-polynesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2011\/02\/dreaming-of-polynesia\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreaming of Polynesia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_27912\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27912\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/gold_dust_tree_lg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27912   img-responsive lazyload\" title=\"This Red Sister Ti Plant (Cordyline terminalis) is growing in the Floriculture Greenhouse. Ti plants are native to Eastern Asia and Polynesia and are used for fiber, cloth, and livestock food.\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/gold_dust_tree_lg.jpg\" alt=\"&lt;p&gt;This Red Sister Ti Plant (Cordyline terminalis) is growing in the Floriculture greenhouse. Ti plants are native to Eastern Asia and Polynesia and are used for fiber, cloth, and livestock food. The roots are said to be edible. This particular plant is called \u2018Red Sister\u2019 because UConn\u2019s specimen is a cultivar  -- a plant deliberately selected for specific characteristics - with pink changing to red leaves. Photo by Sean Flynn&lt;\/p&gt;\" width=\"700\" height=\"480\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/gold_dust_tree_lg.jpg 700w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/gold_dust_tree_lg-300x205.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 700px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 700\/480;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27912\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This Red Sister Ti Plant (Cordyline terminalis) is growing in the Floriculture Greenhouse. Ti plants are native to Eastern Asia and Polynesia and are used for fiber, cloth, and livestock food. The roots are said to be edible. This UConn specimen is called \u2018Red Sister\u2019 because it is a cultivar \u2013 a plant deliberately selected for specific characteristics \u2013 with pink leaves that change to red. Photo by Sean Flynn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Red Sister Ti Plant (Cordyline terminalis) is growing in the Floriculture Greenhouse. A cultivar native to Eastern Asia and Polynesia, its leaves change from pink to red. Photo by Sean Flynn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[56],"class_list":["post-28529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 17:55:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28529"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28890,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28529\/revisions\/28890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28529"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=28529"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=28529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}