{"id":9230,"date":"2020-11-11T04:27:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T04:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=9230"},"modified":"2020-11-11T04:28:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T04:28:00","slug":"plant-a-day-2020-day-284-biophytum-sensitive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/11\/plant-a-day-2020-day-284-biophytum-sensitive\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 294) Biophytum sensitive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I ordered Biophytum seeds online after hearing about this plant on the On the Ledge podcast.<\/a> They were listed as an interesting terrarium plant, so I thought I\u2019d give them a try. Their common name is \u201clittle tree plant\u201d because of the way their long leaves grow, giving even small plants a tree-like appearance. I grew three plants in a terrarium for about eight months\u2013then, when I forgot to water, they died. Luckily, they had bloomed (very small, nondescript flowers) and set seed, so a seedling popped up in a nearby pot and has survived ever since. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The species name refers to the fact that the plant folds up like the sensitive plant. I only have photos of the plants folded up! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I am hoping to keep this last survivor alive through the winter in the window and get seeds off it that I can start or give away. They are cute to have around, even as a ground cover in pots with larger plants. However, I read online that they can become weedy in greenhouses, so I\u2019ll keep an eye out for that\u2013I have enough weeds in there!<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I ordered Biophytum seeds online after hearing about this plant on the On the Ledge podcast. They were listed as an interesting terrarium plant, so I thought I\u2019d give them a try. Their common name is \u201clittle tree plant\u201d because of the way their long leaves grow, giving even small plants a tree-like appearance. I … Continue reading Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 294) Biophytum sensitive<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9234,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9230\/revisions\/9234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}