{"id":15327,"date":"2015-04-24T01:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T11:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=15327"},"modified":"2015-03-29T11:44:46","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T21:44:46","slug":"hinahina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=15327","title":{"rendered":"Hinahina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_15328\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15328\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=15328\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15328\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/CH27-20-15087-DC-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Hinahina\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-15328\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15328\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hinahina (Geranium cuneatum ssp hololeucum) at 9,000ft on the slopes of Mauna Kea<\/figcaption><\/figure>A striking silver shrub common on the cinder slopes and recent lava flows around Mauna Kea and the saddle region.  The leaves are covered with small, silvery hairs giving the plant a silvery hue that is quite a contrast to the dark volcanic rock on which it is commonly found.  The ground around the plant is often littered with these silvery leaves adding to the effect.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_15329\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15329\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=15329\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15329\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/CH27-19-15087-DC-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Hinahina\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-15329\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15329\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hinahina (Geranium cuneatum ssp hololeucum) at 9,000ft on the slopes of Mauna Kea<\/figcaption><\/figure>Native to the Hawaiian islands, Geranium cuneatum ssp. hololeucum is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifa.hawaii.edu\/info\/vis\/natural-history\/flora\/hinahina.html\" target=\"_blank\">a member of the geranium family<\/a> and is the only geranium to feature a woody structure.  The plant is common on recent lava flows and cinder found at the upper margin of vegetation on the mountain.<\/p>\n<p>A small shrub, most of the specimens I have seen are one to two feet high and a few feet in diameter.  The leaves are ovate with linear veins and a forked tip.<\/p>\n<p>The name is partially shared with the silversword found higher on the mountain, as hinahina means silver in Hawaiian.  Several silvery plants share the common name hinahina across the islands.  I prefer the name \u02bb\u0101hinahina for the silversword and reserve hinahina for this pretty little geranium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A striking silver shrub common on the cinder slopes and recent lava flows around Mauna Kea and the saddle region. The leaves are covered with small, silvery hairs giving the plant a silvery hue that is quite a contrast to the dark volcanic rock on which it is commonly found. The ground around the plant &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=15327\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hinahina&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2002],"tags":[2009,2008,88,2010],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15327"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15333,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15327\/revisions\/15333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}